What means
A ready-made game picture from the MZ-700 character set.
In the early 1980s, the European MZ-700 included it in a second built-in set of 8 × 8 game pictures for its text screen.
Computer makers usually showed character charts without naming each glyph, so Unicode supplied the descriptive name in its 2022 proposal. The 2024 Unicode chart is a reference, so modern fonts may draw it differently.
Read the creature literally; the sender's tone needs context.
Don't confuse it with
4Combination ideas
1Suggested crouch-to-spread contrast, not an animation.
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 1CC52, 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 spider crouching”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cc52, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜱒CSS
\1CC52Sharp MZ-700 BASIC, early 1980s
BASIC couldn't type its alternate-set glyphs directly; a program could display them with POKE, a command that writes to memory.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜱒
HTML hex
𜱒
CSS content
content: "\1CC52";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B1%92
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.