U+1F12F "🄯" Copyleft Symbol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🄯
U+1F12F "🄯" Copyleft Symbol is a typographic character used to indicate that a work is available for copying, modification, and redistribution by anyone, provided that all derivative works also remain free and are licensed under the same or equivalent terms. It is essentially a reversed version of the copyright symbol ©, created by computer programmer Rick Falkvinge as a visual marker for the copyleft licensing concept, which is most commonly associated with open source software and free content licenses such as the GNU General Public License. While it is not a formal legal symbol like © or â„—, it serves as an important cultural and ideological icon within the free culture and open source movements.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F12F |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Copyleft Symbol |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumeric 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 0x9F 0x84 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDD2F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F12F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udd2f |
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 | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |