What means
It is a quarter of an old computer's television drawing. The glyph came from the European alternate display set for Sharp MZ home computers—a second built-in table of shapes for the screen. The Sharp MZ TV icon uses four cells; this character is its lower-left part. The character-based display used preset cells to build pictures. A 1983 account of Sharp’s MZ-700 home computer describes a 512-character set with a TV design and says the article’s writers helped shape that collection.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does the TV symbol show as a box?
If your font or app lacks a glyph for it, a missing-character box or blank can appear. Use a font that supports the character; the text may still contain the correct character.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- tv · sharp · mz-700 · mz-800 · computer · graphics · icon · screen
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.