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𜲖

flapping bird

Flapping Bird

𜲖 is a bird beating its wings, preserved from the Sharp MZ-700’s game-sprite set. The old computer drew with character cells, so programmers built pictures from a stock of small images.

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bird sprite · game sprite · sharp mz · mz-700
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𜲖 means

It comes from the MZ-700’s European alternate display set.

Its earliest known home is the Sharp MZ-700, introduced in 1982. The computer drew with a grid of character cells rather than individual pixels; its European alternate set included ready-made game sprites. This bird occupied hexadecimal (base sixteen) display code F4.

The entry was not keyboard text: the BASIC programming language could show it by writing its display code to video memory and selecting the alternate set for that cell. Unicode keeps the old game sprite as one static character; “flapping” describes its pose.

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 1CC96, 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 “flapping bird”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cc96, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜲖
CSS
\1CC96
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜲖
HTML hex
𜲖
CSS content
content: "\1CC96";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B2%96
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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.

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