U+1F15C "🅜" Negative Circled Latin Capital Letter M Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🅜
U+1F15C "🅜" Negative Circled Latin Capital Letter M is part of the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block, designed for use in visual interfaces to represent the letter M inside a solid circular background, often for labeling, mapping, or iconographic purposes. This character was encoded in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010, and it is typically rendered with white lettering on a dark circle, making it distinct from the more common positive circled letters. It is not commonly found in standard textual writing but appears in signage, user interface elements, and metadata notations, where a clear, enclosed symbol is needed for identification or categorization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F15C |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Negative Circled Latin Capital Letter M |
| Block | Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🅜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🅜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x85 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDD5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F15C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udd5c |