What means
No; 0x3B is a slot in the Sharp MZ display table.
The European model’s alternate table was a second set of screen characters, including ready-made game art. It let software build pictures from character cells; Unicode preserves the old shape as a separate text character.
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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.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- pacman · pac-man · pacman symbol · pacman glyph · sharp mz · game sprite · retro game symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
𜱫CSS
\1CC6BCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜱫
HTML hex
𜱫
CSS content
content: "\1CC6B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B1%AB
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.