What means
It comes from an old computer's four-part king picture. The 2021 Unicode mapping proposal traces to the European alternate display set for Sharp's MZ-700, released in 1982. Four king quadrants could combine into an image larger than one 8-by-8-pixel character cell.
On the MZ-700, the second screen character set was selected through video memory—the memory controlling the screen—not with a keyboard key.
Related characters
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Upper Left Quadrant Chess King
Upper-left quarter of the same king drawing.
Upper Right Quadrant Chess King
Upper-right quarter of the same king drawing.
Lower Right Quadrant Chess King
Lower-right quarter of the same king drawing.
White Chess King
Complete white king sign used in ordinary chess notation.
Black Chess King
Complete black king sign used in ordinary chess notation.
Combination ideas
1Arrange the four quadrants in a 22 layout to rebuild the old king picture.
Questions 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.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- MZ-700 chess · king quadrant · chess king quarter
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜲼CSS
\1CCBCCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜲼
HTML hex
𜲼
CSS content
content: "\1CCBC";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B2%BC
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.