U+1F16A "🅪" Raised Mc Sign Unicode Character

U+1F16A "🅪" Raised Mc Sign is a typographic symbol encoded in the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block, designed to visually represent the prefix "Mc" commonly found in Scottish and Irish surnames. It is presented as a white "MC" enclosed within a raised, square-shaped border, intended for use in signage, logos, or decorative text to style names like McDonald or McKenzie. This character serves a niche function in digital typography, offering a precomposed alternative to manually formatting the letters, and it was added to the Unicode Standard in 2012 as part of a set of enclosed alphanumeric symbols for enhanced text representation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F16A
Version Added	6.1
Name	Raised Mc Sign
Block	Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral
Decomposition Type	Super
Decomposition Mapping	"M" U+004D Latin Capital Letter M "C" U+0043 Latin Capital Letter C

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	🅪
HTML Hex Encoding	🅪
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9F 0x85 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83C 0xDD6A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F16A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83c\udd6a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M "c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C
NFKC Simple Casefold	"m" U+006D Latin Small Letter M "c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C
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