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𜲚

down-pointing racing car

Down-pointing racing car

𜲚 is a tiny racing-car picture facing downward, inherited from a Sharp MZ-700 screen font. Its original use was practical: programs could place ready-made pictures in a screen built from text characters.

Text symbol
Search it as
mz-700 · sharp mz · retro computer · car icon · computer glyph
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𜲚 means

It is a small car picture facing the bottom edge.

The Sharp MZ-700, a home computer released in 1982, included the car in the European version’s second display set, at character slot F6. Its text screen assembled pictures from fixed 8×8-pixel character cells, so a program could place a ready-made car tile instead of drawing each pixel. The MZ-700 character ROM held 512 such cells.

Why does this down-pointing racing car look different?

Fonts can redraw its details without changing which way it points.

Unicode’s reference chart shows a sample, not a required design, so fonts can smooth or reshape the tiny car. Its downward direction is the identifying cue.

Don't confuse it with

4
𜲗
Left-Pointing Racing Car
shares “car”, “pointing”, “racing”
𜲘
Up-Pointing Racing Car
shares “car”, “pointing”, “racing”
𜲙
Right-Pointing Racing Car
shares “car”, “pointing”, “racing”
𜰄
Down-Pointing Stick Figure
shares “down”, “pointing”

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 1CC9A, 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 “down-pointing racing car”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cc9a, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜲚
CSS
\1CC9A
How to type 1CC9A in Word for Windows
Enter 1CC9A and press Alt+X. If it follows other hexadecimal digits, select only 1CC9A first; if it appears as a box, switch to a font that includes it.
GNOME desktop
Press Ctrl+Shift+U, enter 1CC9A, then press Enter.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜲚
HTML hex
𜲚
CSS content
content: "\1CC9A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B2%9A
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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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