What means
It is a small go-kart graphic from an early computer. By 1978, Ohio Scientific’s Challenger character set included it among built-in car, ship, and arrow graphics. Programs placed these drawings on text screens for scenes and games.
Unicode later preserved it so old computer text could be exchanged and software could imitate those machines or recreate their text-screen graphics. Its 2024 encoding marks standardization, not the picture’s beginning.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does this go-kart show as a box?
The app’s font lacks the glyph. BabelStone Pseudographica includes it in version 16.0.0, dated 2024-05-30.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CC9D, 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 “vertical go-kart”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1cc9d, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜲝CSS
\1CC9DCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜲝
HTML hex
𜲝
CSS content
content: "\1CC9D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B2%9D
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.