U+1F18C "🆌" Negative Squared Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F18C "🆌" Negative Squared Pa is an encoded symbol used primarily in Japanese mobile phone culture, specifically within the i-mode era, to represent a negative credit status or a rating reduction, as the "Pa" stands for "point" or "percentage" in a gaming or scoring context. This character belongs to the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block and is visually rendered as a white letter "P" inside a blue square with a downward pointing arrow, indicating a decrease. Although it is part of Unicode for compatibility with legacy Japanese communications systems, it is rarely used in modern digital texts and lacks widespread support across most fonts and platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F18C |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Negative Squared Pa |
| 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 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDD8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F18C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udd8c |