What means
Each half occupied its own slot in the text grid. The Sharp MZ-700 game-sprite set consisted of ready-made game pictures stored as characters in its European alternate table; the computer went on sale in 1982. A display setting selected the alternate table, so users could not type these graphics directly from the keyboard. A 2021 Unicode proposal mapped the symbols so emulators (software that imitates old computers) and text-based programs could preserve them.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why is the robot symbol shown as a box?
The app's font lacks this glyph. The text stays intact; a supporting font can display the symbol.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CC5D, 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 left-facing robot”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cc5d, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜱝CSS
\1CC5DHTML
Use the numeric character reference `𜱝` in HTML.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜱝
HTML hex
𜱝
CSS content
content: "\1CC5D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B1%9D
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.