U+1F184 "🆄" Negative Squared Latin Capital Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F184 "🆄" Negative Squared Latin Capital Letter U is an Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement symbol that depicts a bold, white capital letter U inside a solid black square, creating a negative space effect. It is part of a set of characters designed for use in user interface icons, signage, or visual enclosures where single letters are needed to represent concepts such as specific buttons, controls, or labels, often seen in context with other squared letters to denote categories like the "U" standing for "Underground" or "Universität" in certain European or Japanese wayfinding systems. This character adds a compact, highly visible graphic element to digital and printed text, ensuring clear semantic association without relying on images.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F184 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Negative Squared Latin Capital Letter U |
| 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 0x86 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDD84 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F184 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udd84 |