U+1CC96 "𜲖" Flapping Bird Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𜲖
U+1CC96 "𜲖" Flapping Bird is a relatively recent addition to the Unicode Standard, included in Version 15.0, and it belongs to the "Noto Sans Symbols 2" or "Symbols for Legacy Computing" block, specifically designed to represent graphical glyphs from vintage computer systems rather than a literal zoological or textual character. Its name derives from a classic animated ASCII or 8-bit art sprite often used in early software, games, or terminal demos to depict a bird in midflutter with wings raised, and it serves as a digital artifact preserving the visual culture of retro computing interfaces and pixel art aesthetics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CC96 |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Flapping Bird |
| Block | Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𜲖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𜲖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9C 0xB2 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD833 0xDC96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001CC96 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud833\udc96 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |