What means
It is one cell of a computer picture made from four characters. Early home computers used semigraphics: simple pictures made from character shapes arranged in text cells. Unicode preserves legacy computer graphics for conversion and lets emulators or text-mode software reproduce them.
Don't confuse it with
4Combination ideas
1Full microcomputer icon, built from its four Unicode character cells.
Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box?
Unicode 16.0 display guidance describes an empty box or code label as a fallback when a font cannot draw a visible character. If appears that way, the fallback hides the picture fragment; it is not another design.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CCB6, 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 microcomputer”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1ccb6, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜲶CSS
\1CCB6Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜲶
HTML hex
𜲶
CSS content
content: "\1CCB6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B2%B6
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.