U+1F18B "🆋" Negative Squared Ic Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🆋
U+1F18B "🆋" Negative Squared Ic is a special symbol within the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block, depicting a bold, white uppercase "IC" enclosed within a black square for a negative or inverse appearance. Its primary function is as an ideographic telegraph symbol for the term "IC," which can stand for Integrated Circuit. This character was added to the Unicode Standard in version 5.2, released in 2009, to support specific telecommunication and signage requirements where compact, visually distinct abbreviations are needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F18B |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Negative Squared Ic |
| 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 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDD8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F18B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udd8b |