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𜲉

square four corner saltires

Square Four-Corner Saltires

𜲉 is a geometric screen mark from the Sharp MZ-700’s European character set. Extra glyphs let programs build pictures from character cells; its name describes the design.

Text symbol
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mz-700 · terminal · textmode · graphics · glyph
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𜲉 means

It was a glyph in the computer’s European alternate display set. The Sharp MZ-700 alternate character slot 0x77 held this mark.

Introduced in 1982, this computer built pictures from fixed screen cells and extra glyphs. A settings byte selected the alternate table one cell at a time. The glyph could not be typed on the original keyboard; displaying it required writing to video memory with BASIC’s POKE command.

Unicode’s 2021 proposal supplied its descriptive name. A saltire is an X-shaped cross; computer makers usually showed legacy glyphs in charts without individual names.

Don't confuse it with

4
𜲊
Square Four Corner Diagonals
shares “corner”, “four”, “square”
𜲋
Square Four Corner Black Triangles
shares “corner”, “four”, “square”
𜱼
Square Spiral From Top Left
shares “square”
𜱽
Square Spiral From Top Right
shares “square”

Questions people ask

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Why 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.

How to type 𜲉

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CC89, 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 “square four corner saltires”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cc89, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜲉
CSS
\1CC89
HTML
The HTML character reference for 1CC89 is `𜲉`.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜲉
HTML hex
𜲉
CSS content
content: "\1CC89";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B2%89
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.

Families this belongs to

2

Shapes & colours597 symbols

🔴▶️🔵⭕⚫⚪▪️🔷🔹⏭️⏯️◀️

Legacy computing935 symbols

𜰀𜰁𜰂𜰃𜰄𜰅𜰆𜰇𜰈𜰉𜰊𜰋