What means
It is a preset game figure split into two rows.
The Mattel Aquarius, a home computer released in 1983, had a fixed character set. Its ready-made game figures let programs show this runner without defining a custom character shape; Unicode preserves the old graphic for legacy-text exchange.
How do the Aquarius runner frames fit together?
Set one lower half directly beneath it.
The four lower frames show different leg positions. Changing the character in the next row animates the runner while its top stays fixed.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions 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.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CDF0, 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 “top half forward-facing runner”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cdf0, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜷰CSS
\1CDF0Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1CDF0";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B7%B0
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.