What means
A ready-made game sprite aimed downward.
Released in 1982, the Sharp MZ-700 home computer stored 512 one-color 88 designs in a built-in chip. Its European alternate set—a second group of display symbols—placed this rifle with aliens, rockets, bombs and vehicles as ready-made game art. In 2021, a proposal to Unicode, the shared character system, included it among old-computer and teletext symbols to preserve older text and support emulators and text-mode art. The MZ display slot 57 is a separate code from its Unicode character ID.
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Questions people ask
1Why 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.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- gun · rifle · gun symbol · sharp mz-700
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜱨\1CC68Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.