What means
It came from the Sharp MZ European alternate set.
The MZ-700 (1982) stored 512 ready-made 88 pictures for text screens and game graphics. Unicode’s mapping identifies this glyph as slot 54. The same set contains three other bomb directions and a separate mushroom-cloud symbol.
The old game sprite still depicts an atomic bomb; its direction does not soften that image.
Alone in a tense chat, it can read as a threat.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Left-Pointing Atomic Bomb
Another bomb sprite from the same Sharp MZ set, pointing left.
Up-Pointing Atomic Bomb
Another bomb sprite from the same Sharp MZ set, pointing up.
Down-Pointing Atomic Bomb
Another bomb sprite from the same Sharp MZ set, pointing down.
Mushroom Cloud
The mushroom-cloud symbol from the same Sharp MZ set.
Questions people ask
1Why does this symbol show as a box?
Under CSS Fonts Level 4, if browser fonts cannot display it, the browser should show a missing-glyph mark.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- sharp mz · mz bomb · bomb sprite · retro bomb · computer bomb · nuke symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜱢CSS
\1CC62Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜱢
HTML hex
𜱢
CSS content
content: "\1CC62";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B1%A2
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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.