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𜰄

down-pointing stick figure

Down-Pointing Stick Figure

𜰄 shows a stick figure pointing down and comes from the Japanese character set for Sharp MZ computers. It began as a ready-made game graphic, so in a message it tells you which way the figure points; the surrounding text supplies what it points at.

Text symbol

Search it as: mz-80k · sharp · sprite · textmode
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𜰄 means

It comes from the Japanese character set for Sharp MZ computers.

The old display code assigns it byte CD (an 8-bit value) in the Japanese primary set for Sharp MZ. The MZ-80K launched in Japan in 1978; its fixed character cells could be combined into simple graphics, including game sprites like this figure. Unicode preserves such characters so old computer data can be converted both ways without losing the original.

Why might it show as a box?

A font without this glyph may show a replacement box.

Unicode identifies the character, but each font supplies its drawing. If a missing-character box appears, the stored character is still 𜰄; the box is a font fallback, not a different figure.

Don't confuse it with

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Left-Pointing Stick Figure

shares “figure”, “pointing”, “stick”

Right-Pointing Stick Figure

shares “figure”, “pointing”, “stick”

Down-Pointing Rocket Ship

shares “down”, “pointing”

Down-Pointing Atomic Bomb

shares “down”, “pointing”

Questions people ask

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Is CD the keyboard shortcut to enter this?

No. CD is the old byte assigned to this figure in the Sharp MZ Japanese primary set; it helps decode old MZ data, but it is not a keyboard shortcut.

How to type 𜰄

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType 1CC04, 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 stick figure”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cc04, then Enter or Space.

HTML

𜰄

CSS

\1CC04

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

𜰄

HTML hex

𜰄

CSS content

content: "\1CC04";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9C%B0%84

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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

𜰀𜰁𜰂𜰃𜰅𜰆𜰇𜰈𜰉𜰊𜰋𜰌