U+1F12A "🄪" Tortoise Shell Bracketed Latin Capital Letter S Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F12A "🄪" Tortoise Shell Bracketed Latin Capital Letter S is a typographic symbol that encloses a capital "S" within a distinctive tortoise shell shaped bracket, often referred to as a "tortoise shell" or "square bracket with rounded corners." This character belongs to the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block, a segment of Unicode designed to provide stylized or decorative letterforms for specialized formatting, such as in signage, captions, or annotated lists. Its visual style, reminiscent of a bracket resembling a turtle's shell, sets it apart from standard encircled or parenthetical characters and carries a retro or ornamental quality, though it lacks a widely standardized semantic meaning beyond its opaque visual representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F12A |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tortoise Shell Bracketed Latin Capital Letter S |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "〔" U+3014 Left Tortoise Shell Bracket "S" U+0053 Latin Capital Letter S "〕" U+3015 Right Tortoise Shell Bracket |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🄪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🄪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x84 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDD2A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F12A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udd2a |