What 🯹 means
Read it as nine; the segments mark its display style.
The Atari ST, a 16-bit home computer, included this upright seven-segment form alongside ordinary text digits. Programs used it for a separate role, including game scores. The bars change its appearance, not its value.
It reads as nine, with the boxy electronic-display look of segmented numerals.
Don't confuse it with
4Combination ideas
1A retro-styled 99 score.
Questions people ask
1Can text processing turn it into plain 9?
Yes. NFKC, a Unicode text-cleanup form that folds compatibility distinctions, maps it to ordinary 9. Software that applies NFKC removes the seven-segment styling; whether that happens depends on the software.
How to type 🯹
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FBF9, then Alt+X to get 🯹.
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 “segmented digit nine”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fbf9, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🯹CSS
\1FBF9Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🯹
HTML hex
🯹
CSS content
content: "\1FBF9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AF%B9
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.