What means
It was a stored shape for game-like screen graphics. The MZ-700 selected drawings held in character memory; its European alternate set supplied more pictorial shapes for building scenes.
The old Sharp MZ table gives this image display code A5 in the European alternate set. MZ-700 BASIC, the computer’s programming language, could not enter those characters from the keyboard; a program could show one with POKE, a command that writes directly to screen memory.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions 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.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CCA0, 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-pointing rocket booster”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cca0, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜲠CSS
\1CCA0Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜲠
HTML hex
𜲠
CSS content
content: "\1CCA0";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B2%A0
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.