What means
It was a curved piece for character-cell graphics.
By 1982, the European Sharp MZ-700 table assigned it byte B3. Its pre-drawn cell shapes made curves and simple graphics without direct pixel drawing.
The 2021 Unicode proposal supplied its descriptive name; makers usually showed charts or screen images without naming symbols. For conversion, map B3 through the Sharp table.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does it appear as a box in BDF or PCF fonts?
BDF and PCF fonts on X cover only Plane 0, Unicode's first range; this character sits in Plane 1. GNU Unifont's September 2026 documentation points to an upper-plane font.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CC37, 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 middle right twelfth circle”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cc37, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜰷CSS
\1CC37Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜰷
HTML hex
𜰷
CSS content
content: "\1CC37";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B0%B7
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.