What means
It was a ready-made game sprite. This Sharp MZ-700 fish symbol came from the computer’s European alternate character set, a second bank of stored shapes software could place into screen cells.
The MZ-700 went on sale in 1982. A modern map of its European alternate character set links this glyph to position F1 (the set’s hexadecimal label, not a keyboard shortcut), alongside game figures, vehicles and faces.
Don't confuse it with
3Questions people ask
1Why does this fish show as a box?
Your font or text-rendering fallback has no glyph for this character. The text may still contain the right symbol; display depends on font support.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CC93, then Alt+X to get .
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “right-facing fish”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cc93, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜲓CSS
\1CC93HTML character reference
In HTML source, use `𜲓`. It renders as this character when the page’s font includes its glyph.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜲓
HTML hex
𜲓
CSS content
content: "\1CC93";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B2%93
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.