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𜱼

square spiral from top left

Square Spiral From Top Left

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𜱼 is a square spiral from the upper left, preserved from Sharp’s MZ-700 European character set. The MZ-700, sold in November 1982, made game scenes from preset shapes inside boxes used for letters; three variants start at other corners. On that computer, the alternate set wasn’t keyboard input; BASIC, its programming language, displayed it with POKE, a memory command. Unicode carries the same design as a text character.

Text symbol

What 𜱼 means

𜱼 is the square spiral from top left. Unicode classifies it as an “other symbol” — Unicode's shelf for signs that are neither maths, money nor punctuation and files it in the Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement block; this site shelves it under Lines & boxes.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𜱼 is a single code point, U1CC7C. In HTML that is 𜱼, and in CSS \1CC7C.

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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 or find 𜱼

Search it as
sharp mz-700 · mz-700 game graphics · sharp character set · retro computer symbol · text mode graphics
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 1CC7C, then AltX 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 spiral from top left”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1cc7c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜱼
CSS
\1CC7C
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜱼
HTML hex
𜱼
CSS content
content: "\1CC7C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B1%BC
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

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