What 🭵 means
Kaypro, Ohio Scientific, and Sharp MZ character sets include this tile. Early home computers displayed letters and ready-made graphic shapes in fixed-size screen cells. Placing the shapes in rows and columns made simple pictures on a text-only display. The wider legacy-computing repertoire includes home computers made from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions 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.
How to type 🭵
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FB75, 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-7”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fb75, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🭵CSS
\1FB75Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🭵
HTML hex
🭵
CSS content
content: "\1FB75";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AD%B5
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.