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𜱐

alien crab stepping right

Right-Stepping Alien Crab

This is the right-stepping crab from the Sharp MZ-700’s game-character set. Its left-facing partner was a separate character in the same European display set.

Text symbol
Search it as
sharp mz-700 · sharp mz · mz sprite · character rom
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𜱐 means

It was a game picture in the MZ-700’s European alternate set. The computer lacked pixel-by-pixel graphics; games used built-in character pictures to show creatures in motion.

In Japan, the MZ-700’s alternate set held hiragana and lowercase Latin instead. A 2021 Unicode proposal aimed to preserve legacy character data and support emulator software; Unicode added this character in 2024.

On the MZ-700, introduced in 1982, these were not ordinary keyboard characters; a program selected one with a per-cell display setting. Fonts may draw this glyph differently because Unicode’s chart drawing is a reference, not a fixed design.

Don't confuse it with

4
𜱑
Alien Crab Stepping Left
shares “alien”, “crab”, “stepping”
𜱌
Alien Monster Open Jaws
shares “alien”
𜱍
Alien Monster Closed Jaws
shares “alien”
𜱎
Alien Squid Open Tentacles
shares “alien”

Questions people ask

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Why 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 1CC50, 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 “alien crab stepping right”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cc50, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜱐
CSS
\1CC50
Word for Microsoft 365
Type 1CC50 and press Alt+X. If it does not display, choose a font that includes the character.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜱐
HTML hex
𜱐
CSS content
content: "\1CC50";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B1%90
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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.

Families this belongs to

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Legacy computing935 symbols

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