What means
It is a Sharp MZ-700 display graphic. The home computer appeared in 1982; this gun drawing belonged to its European alternate character set.
The MZ-700 used 88-pixel character cells instead of freely drawn bitmap graphics, so stored shapes worked like small tiles for screen pictures and games. This rifle could not be typed like an ordinary keyboard character on that machine: a program in BASIC, its programming language, had to put alternate-set characters on screen with POKE, a command that writes a value directly to a chosen memory address.
A literal rifle graphic with retro-computing roots; the surrounding words determine the tone.
Sent alone, it can read as a threat; add context if that is not your intent.
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Questions people ask
1Why does this character show as a box?
Your app’s font lacks this drawing. The text still contains the rifle character; a font that supports it can display the image.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- gun · rifle · firearm · pixel gun · weapon icon · MZ-700
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜱧\1CC67Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.