What means
It is an alien squid sprite with tentacles folded in.
Sharp's MZ-700 stored this pose in its European alternate display set, a bank of built-in pictures. The machine dates from the early 1980s; game programmers arranged its 88 character cells into scenes. Its paired pose, , opens the tentacles.
Part of the collection
Combination ideas
1Designed two-frame motion: tentacles spread, then tuck in.
Questions people ask
1Why is there a box instead of the alien squid?
The app's font may lack this rare glyph. The character can still be in the text; a font that supports it supplies the drawing.
More like this
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- sharp mz · mz-700 · game sprite · retro computer
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜱏CSS
\1CC4FHTML
In markup, write
𜱏 to render this character.MZ-700 BASIC
The alternate set was not directly typable; programs displayed it with POKE, a command that writes values to memory.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜱏
HTML hex
𜱏
CSS content
content: "\1CC4F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B1%8F
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.