What means
The middle still in a three-frame game explosion.
The Mattel Aquarius released in 1983 used character slot D1 for this symbol. D1 was one label in the computer’s fixed set of 256 glyphs. The Aquarius could not place pixels wherever a game artist wanted, so programmers built pictures from ready-made glyphs; one could act as a sprite, a small image that moves in a game.
A frame is one still image in an animation. Frame 1 and frame 3 are the bookends; read in order, the three glyphs suggest the burst unfolding.
Don't confuse it with
4Combination ideas
1A designed left-to-right sequence of all three stills suggests a burst unfolding.
Questions people ask
1Does animate by itself?
No. is a single static text character. A program would need to replace it with the other frames over time to show movement.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CDFE, 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 “explosion frame-2”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cdfe, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜷾CSS
\1CDFECodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜷾
HTML hex
𜷾
CSS content
content: "\1CDFE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B7%BE
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.