U+1F17C "🅼" Negative Squared Latin Capital Letter M Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F17C "🅼" Negative Squared Latin Capital Letter M is a distinctive symbol belonging to the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block, designed to represent the letter M inside a square with a negative or inverse color scheme, typically showing a white letter on a black or dark background. Its primary application is in signage and user interface design, often serving as an icon for metro, subway, or railway systems in transportation maps and digital displays, particularly where the letter M denotes a specific station, route, or service. While it encodes a specific visual style, it remains a text character rather than an image, allowing it to be rendered consistently across fonts and platforms that support the Unicode standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F17C |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Negative Squared 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 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDD7C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F17C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udd7c |