What means
It began as a game picture on an MZ home-computer screen.
Sharp MZ character cells could show small pictures as well as letters. The European alternate display set was a second bank of ready-made screen pictures; this upward wave belonged to its game sprites.
Character-cell pictures could be arranged across the screen and refreshed to animate a scene. Unicode preserves this MZ form as text so old character data can be converted and emulators can reproduce it.
How do I type the up-pointing energy wave?
As of 2026, enter 1CC79 then press Alt+X in Word for Windows.
Type the five hexadecimal digits without the U+ prefix. Other editors may have their own Unicode input or character-map tools.
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4Questions people ask
2Why does appear as an empty box?
It can happen when the app’s font lacks this glyph. Choose a font that covers U+1CC79; the text still contains even when the app shows a fallback box.
Could I type from a Sharp MZ keyboard?
No. On the early-1980s MZ-700, this belonged to the European alternate display set, not the normal keyboard characters. A BASIC program could show it with POKE, a command that writes a value into screen memory.
How to type
𜱹\1CC79Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.