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𜷴

bottom half forward-facing runner frame-4

Forward-Facing Runner, Bottom Half, Frame 4

𜷴 is the lower half of one pose in a forward-facing runner animation from the Mattel Aquarius. Games built pictures from fixed character tiles; Unicode preserves these old symbols so legacy character data can be converted into modern text software.

Text symbol
Search it as
aquarius · mattel aquarius · aquarius graphics · aquarius character set · running man · game sprite
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𜷴 means

It is the lower tile of a two-cell running figure. In the 1983 Mattel Aquarius character set, the forward-facing runner had one fixed top half and four changing lower halves. 𜷴 is the fourth pose; a “frame” is one pose in an animation.

For the Aquarius's 1983 release, graphic designers Joe Ferreira, Monique Lujan-Bakerink and Peggi Decarli assembled the wider character set from programmers' requests for game-screen pieces. The computer had no programmable graphics, so its games built scenes from ready-made tiles. A 2021 Unicode proposal sought to make this legacy character data convertible into modern text software.

Don't confuse it with

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𜷱
Bottom Half Forward-Facing Runner Frame-1
shares “bottom”, “forward”, “frame”, “half”, “runner”
𜷲
Bottom Half Forward-Facing Runner Frame-2
shares “bottom”, “forward”, “frame”, “half”, “runner”
𜷳
Bottom Half Forward-Facing Runner Frame-3
shares “bottom”, “forward”, “frame”, “half”, “runner”
𜷩
Bottom Half Right-Facing Runner Frame-1
shares “bottom”, “frame”, “half”, “runner”

Questions people ask

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Why 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 1CDF4, 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 “bottom half forward-facing runner frame-4”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cdf4, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜷴
CSS
\1CDF4
Mattel Aquarius conversion
The 1983 Aquarius character code is 18 (hex 12); map that machine-specific code when converting its legacy text to Unicode.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜷴
HTML hex
𜷴
CSS content
content: "\1CDF4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B7%B4
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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.

Families this belongs to

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Legacy computing935 symbols

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