What means
A graphic tile in the MZ-700's European alternate set.
In 1982, its 512 character tiles were 8×8 pixels. Without bitmap mode, programs built images from them. Other cells showed the snake facing four ways or with its mouth closed.
Unicode keeps the graphic for interchange with the Sharp character set.
Don't confuse it with
4
Up-Facing Snake Head With Open Mouth
shares “head”, “mouth”, “open”, “snake”
Right-Facing Snake Head With Open Mouth
shares “head”, “mouth”, “open”, “snake”
Down-Facing Snake Head With Open Mouth
shares “head”, “mouth”, “open”, “snake”
Left-Facing Snake Head With Closed Mouth
shares “head”, “mouth”, “snake”
Questions people ask
1Why is it a box in my font?
It can. Fonts draw it differently; if yours lacks the glyph, it may show a box or blank.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CC70, 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 “left-facing snake head with open mouth”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cc70, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜱰CSS
\1CC70Could I type it from the Sharp MZ-700 keyboard?
No: the alternate-table character was not keyboard input. BASIC used `POKE` to write its code to screen memory.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜱰
HTML hex
𜱰
CSS content
content: "\1CC70";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B1%B0
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.