What 🭲 means
A fixed-width graphic piece for drawing shapes on screen. PETSCII was the built-in set of letters and graphic tiles on Commodore machines; the PET home computer appeared in 1977. This exact strip appears in PET/VIC-20 and C64/C128 sets. On the C64, its PETSCII screen code was $42, entered with Shift+B. Japan’s Sharp MZ home-computer set also included it at display code 0x35. These tiles let text-only computers make simple pictures.
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4Questions people ask
1Why does 🭲 show as a box?
Your font lacks its glyph. Try a font that supports 🭲; the box is only a fallback.
How to type 🭲
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB72, then Alt+X to get 🭲.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “vertical one eighth block-4”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb72, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🭲CSS
\1FB72Unicode hex input
In an app with Unicode hex input, enter 1FB72 and confirm; if it has no such mode, use the palette above.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🭲
HTML hex
🭲
CSS content
content: "\1FB72";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AD%B2
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.