U+1F148 "🅈" Squared Latin Capital Letter Y Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F148 "🅈" Squared Latin Capital Letter Y is a typographic glyph that combines a standard Latin capital Y enclosed within a square outline, belonging to the Enclosed Alphanumerics Supplement block. This character is part of a set designed primarily for representing labelled buttons, keys, or symbols in interface designs, signage, or diagrams where a clearly demarcated, square container highlights the letter. It is used in contexts such as instructional labels, map keys, or as a placeholder in user interface mockups, and it is distinct from the squared vowel characters in its block to represent a consonant.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F148 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Squared Latin Capital Letter Y |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Y" U+0059 Latin Capital Letter Y |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🅈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🅈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x85 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDD48 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F148 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udd48 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Other Uppercase | Yes |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "y" U+0079 Latin Small Letter Y |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "y" U+0079 Latin Small Letter Y |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Other Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |