What means
It was a tile for drawing game screens. Sharp's MZ-700 went on sale in 1982; the 2021 Unicode mapping places this drawing at position 0x66 in its European alternate display set. The computer's character-generator ROM held ready-made shapes that game makers assembled into scenes.
That alternate set was for display, not ordinary keyboard input. On the MZ-700, a BASIC program could put one of its characters on screen with POKE, a command that writes a value directly into computer memory. Unicode preserves the drawing as an independent text character, separate from the old display-slot number.
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Questions people ask
1Why does this symbol show as a box?
It is a font fallback. If the active font lacks this drawing, your app may show a box or blank space; the stored text still contains the same character.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- mz-700 · sharp mz · mz sprite · game sprite · retro computer · character rom · alternate character set · computer graphics
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜱿\1CC7FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.