What means
GNOME uses CtrlShiftU; Word for Windows uses AltX.
On GNOME or GTK, press CtrlShiftU, type 1CC6C, then press Enter or Space. In Word for Windows, type 1CC6C and press AltX; select only those digits first if they follow other text. As of 2026, Unicode and Microsoft document these routes.
What did the Sharp MZ use this character for?
It was a preset screen graphic.
Sharp's MZ-700, released in 1982, included this glyph in its European alternate display set. The Japanese set instead held hiragana, a Japanese syllabary, and lowercase Latin letters; the European set carried graphics and game sprites. The MZ-700 had no bitmap mode, where programs control individual screen pixels, so programmers used ready-made characters to draw simple pictures cell by cell. Unicode keeps this MZ glyph as a separate character so old text can be converted back and forth without losing it.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does this character show as a box?
A font issue. As of 2026, BabelStone Pseudographica lists this exact glyph and covers the Unicode 16 legacy-computing set. If it still appears as a box, the selected font does not provide its drawing.
More like this
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- sharp mz · mz-700 · old computer symbol · mz character set
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜱬\1CC6CCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.