What means
One cell held part of a pre-drawn game picture. Sharp’s MZ-700 was a home computer with a fixed character grid. Its European alternate display set included the four bishop tiles; software selected these cells for display rather than typing them as ordinary text.
Place the four tiles in a 22 grid, with at bottom-left. A fixed-width font keeps them aligned. Unicode preserves this fragment in older text and emulator graphics.
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box on some devices?
It is recent: Unicode added it in version 16.0 (2024), and phones and computers whose fonts are older than that have nothing to draw it with. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- sharp mz · sharp mz 700 · chess bitmap · retro computer art
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
𜳈CSS
\1CCC8Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜳈
HTML hex
𜳈
CSS content
content: "\1CCC8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B3%88
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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.