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𜷻

up-pointing frog

Up-Pointing Frog

𜷻 is a specific piece of Aquarius home-computer game art: it depicts the player in <i>Phrogger</i>, an adaptation of <i>Frogger</i>. The Aquarius assembled scenes from fixed character tiles, making this a frog sprite—a reusable game image—for that title.

Text symbol
Search it as
phrogger · frogger · aquarius frog · frog sprite · computer frog
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𜷻 means

The Aquarius used it as a fixed tile for the playable frog. A 1983 Phrogger screen capture shows it during play. The Aquarius stored small character shapes in a built-in set and assembled them into game scenes instead of drawing flexible pixel images. This glyph supplied the frog in that screen.

What does it mean when someone sends it?

By itself, it shows a frog; the message supplies the reason. In retro-computing or Frogger talk, it can point to the Aquarius game character. Without that cue, read it as a frog image and use the surrounding words to understand why the sender chose it.

Playful, nostalgic game art when the reader knows the reference.

Don't confuse it with

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🐸
Frog
This is a separate frog-face emoji; 𜷻 represents a player character from an Aquarius game.

Questions people ask

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Why does this character show as a box?

A box usually means the selected font or app lacks a glyph for this character. The text can still contain 𜷻; a font that supports it can show the game artwork.

How to type 𜷻

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CDFB, 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 “up-pointing frog”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cdfb, then Enter or Space.
HTML
&#x1CDFB;
CSS
\1CDFB
Microsoft Word or Outlook
In Word or Outlook, enter 1CDFB and press Alt+X.
GNOME or another GTK desktop
Press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 1CDFB, then press Enter.
macOS Unicode Hex Input
This input method accepts only four hexadecimal digits; 1CDFB has five, so it cannot enter this character.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
&#118267;
HTML hex
&#x1CDFB;
CSS content
content: "\1CDFB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B7%BB
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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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Legacy computing935 symbols

𜰀𜰁𜰂𜰃𜰄𜰅𜰆𜰇𜰈𜰉𜰊𜰋