What means
It's the bottom-left tile in a four-cell face drawing.
The MZ-700 launched in 1982. Its built-in character graphics gave text-mode programs ready-made faces and game art, with each screen cell acting like a small tile.
Part of the collection
Combination ideas
1Sharp MZ face tiles form a neutral face with open eyes.
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
- sharp mz · mz-700 · mz-800 · text graphics · character graphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
𜲬CSS
\1CCACOriginal display
The MZ-700's European alternate table assigned byte 0x97. A BASIC program could select it with POKE, which changes screen memory; keyboard text could not.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜲬
HTML hex
𜲬
CSS content
content: "\1CCAC";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B2%AC
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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.