What 🭱 means
On GNOME/GTK, press CtrlShiftU, type 1FB71, then press Enter.
Semigraphic means the character acts like a tile in a picture made from text blocks. Adjacent pieces line up in a fixed-width grid.
What was 🭱 made for?
It is one piece for assembling graphics inside text cells.
Older block graphics were in Unicode, the system that identifies characters across devices, by 1991. Teletext, a service for sending text pages over television, developed in the early 1970s; home computers from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s used block pieces for simple pictures.
The 2019 proposal aimed to preserve computer and teletext characters in Unicode and help emulator software—programs that imitate old machines—display them. Adjacent blocks can tile into text graphics. In April 2024, Cascadia Code, a coding font, added this eight-part family; a font without this glyph may show a missing-character box.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 🭱 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 🭱
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- semigraphics · mosaic · terminal · pixel · pixelart
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🭱\1FB71Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.