What means
It supplied ready-made game art for the character-based screen.
A 1983 account of the European MZ-700 lists chess pieces among its built-in game graphics. The character-set map places at MZ (EU Alt) EA, the code for this tile in the computer’s second display set.
On the 1983 MZ-700, this alternate-set character could not be typed directly; a program selected it for a screen cell. A 2021 Unicode proposal sought to preserve the set for conversion to and from old computer text.
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 1CCD2, 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 standing knight”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1ccd2, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜳒CSS
\1CCD2Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜳒
HTML hex
𜳒
CSS content
content: "\1CCD2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B3%92
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.