What means
It marks the upper-right part of a four-part block. In a Japanese primary display set for Sharp MZ computers, this tile was display code F2. Each character cell could select one of four pixel parts; arranged in a grid, those parts let a text-only screen draw rough pictures.
Sharp's MZ family included the MZ-80K by 1978; the Unicode source mapping traces this tile to the line's Japanese primary set. A 2026 hobbyist graphics project reused the F0–FF tile set to render images. The ordinary quadrant block is the closest match, but it is a different character.
Technical and retro-computing; it reads as a pixel tile from an old character-based display.
For exact legacy text, is only a visual stand-in; it does not preserve the MZ character's identity.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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- Search it as
- sharp mz · mz-700 · pixel tile · mz character set
- 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.