U+1F176 "🅶" Negative Squared Latin Capital Letter G Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🅶
U+1F176 "🅶" Negative Squared Latin Capital Letter G is a typographic symbol from the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block, depicting a white letter "G" inside a black square. It is primarily used in visual communication systems such as signage, user interfaces, or geographic key maps where an enclosed letter indicates a specific category, service, or location. This character is not part of standard alphabetical or numerical inputs but serves a decorative and informational role, often representing a "garage" or "golf" in iconographic contexts, or acting as a placeholder for "G" in enclosed symbol sets.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F176 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Negative Squared Latin Capital Letter G |
| 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 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDD76 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F176 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udd76 |