What means
It is one tile from a four-character picture. Released in 1982, the Sharp MZ-700’s European alternate display set supplied game art; four screen cells formed a chess piece. Japanese MZ versions used a different table.
Programs selected these pictures in screen memory instead of typing them as ordinary text. Unicode preserves the fragment as a standalone text character.
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 1CCC6, 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 “upper left quadrant chess bishop”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1ccc6, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜳆CSS
\1CCC6Word
As of 2026, type 1CCC6 and press Alt+X. The selected font must include this glyph for it to display.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜳆
HTML hex
𜳆
CSS content
content: "\1CCC6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B3%86
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.