What means
A pre-drawn game picture of a small alien. On the European Sharp MZ-700, alternate character cells let games show images on a text-based screen; this one has its jaws open.
In its 2021 proposal, Unicode contributors mapped Sharp MZ display codes to portable text characters and assigned the picture its descriptive English name.
Don't confuse it with
4Combination ideas
1A designed two-frame beat: the alien opens its jaws, then shuts them.
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.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CC4C, 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 monster open jaws”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cc4c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜱌CSS
\1CC4CEuropean Sharp MZ-700
In the European Sharp MZ-700, it was not a direct keypress. BASIC could show it with POKE, which writes the character code into screen memory.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜱌
HTML hex
𜱌
CSS content
content: "\1CC4C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B1%8C
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.