What means
The Sharp MZ-700 used stored character drawings to suggest game graphics.
In the early 1980s, this home computer displayed tiny 8-by-8 dot drawings from built-in memory; games arranged them in text cells to suggest pictures. Unicode’s legacy set preserves old computer graphics for conversion and emulators, software that imitates those machines. The snake heads form four facing directions, each with open- and closed-mouth poses.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1A designed two-frame beat: the same down-facing head, mouth open then closed.
Questions people ask
1Why does show as an empty box?
A font needs its own drawing for the character. The BabelStone Pseudographica chart checked in 2026 includes this exact glyph; without a matching font glyph, an app may show a missing-character box.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- sharp mz · snake sprite · game sprite · retro computer · open mouth · down snake
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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𜱳CSS
\1CC73Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1CC73";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B1%B3
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On screen
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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.