What means
It let a text screen build a larger picture from tiles.
The 1982 Sharp MZ-700 home computer built pictures from preset screen cells instead of freely drawn pixels. Its European alternate set split chess pieces across four screen cells. Unicode preserves this exact tile as a character of its own.
Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
1The four quarters arranged as a 22 knight image.
Questions 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.
More like this
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Collections with
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- sharp mz · mz-700 · quadrant · fragment
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
𜳊CSS
\1CCCASharp MZ-700 European alternate set
In 1982 BASIC, the machine’s programming language, this was not keyboard-typeable; a program selected the alternate set and used POKE to write it to screen memory.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜳊
HTML hex
𜳊
CSS content
content: "\1CCCA";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B3%8A
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On screen
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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.