U+1F171 "🅱" Negative Squared Latin Capital Letter B Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🅱
U+1F171 "🅱" Negative Squared Latin Capital Letter B is a unique visual symbol that represents a bold, white capital letter B displayed inside a dark square, which inverts the typical color scheme of a standard sign. This glyph is primarily used as an emoji in digital communication, often serving as a playful or stylized way to denote the letter B in contexts like brand names, gaming, or social media acronyms, and it can also resemble the symbol for the B vitamin type when used in scientific or nutritional shorthand. Its design is part of the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block, providing a compact, attention grabbing way to represent the letter B in a squared format.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F171 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Negative Squared Latin Capital Letter B |
| 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 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDD71 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F171 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udd71 |