What means
Each character held one tile of the original picture.
The Sharp MZ smiley came from the European alternate display set; on the MZ-700, released in 1982, this tile occupied position 95 (hex).
Its original job was screen graphics. In 2021, Unicode's proposal aimed to let old character data move between systems unchanged and support emulator software.
Part of the collection
Combination ideas
1An open-eyed smile assembled as a two-row computer graphic.
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
- computer smiley · sharp mz · mz character · pixel face · quadrant smiley · legacy computer symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
𜲪CSS
\1CCAAMZ-700 (1982)
The alternate glyphs were not keyboard-typable; a program in BASIC used
POKE, a command that writes a value to memory, to display the code.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜲪
HTML hex
𜲪
CSS content
content: "\1CCAA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B2%AA
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.