What means
In the 1980s, the Sharp MZ-700 used this European alternate display set. Its ready-drawn character tiles made it possible to build game scenes on a text screen. Unicode preserves this tile as portable text: its picture remains the upper half of a robot facing right, while its role shifts from game image to stored character data.
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 1CC5C, 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 right-facing robot”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cc5c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜱜CSS
\1CC5CMZ-700 BASIC POKE
On the MZ-700 in the 1980s, these alternate characters could not be typed directly or printed. The manual shows a BASIC POKE routine that writes second-half character codes into screen memory.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜱜
HTML hex
𜱜
CSS content
content: "\1CC5C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B1%9C
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.