U+1F200 "🈀" Square Hiragana Hoka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F200 "🈀" Square Hiragana Hoka is an enclosed ideographic character from the Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block, representing the Japanese hiragana reading "hoka" (ほか) within a square frame. This symbol is historically used in Japan as a decorative or informative marker, often found on signs, documents, or labels to mean "other" or "elsewhere" in contexts like forms, menus, or directories. It is distinct from standard text characters because it combines a hiragana sound with a fixed square enclosure, making it a unique CJK compatibility symbol for specialized or legacy Japanese typesetting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F200 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Square Hiragana Hoka |
| Block | Enclosed Ideographic Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ほ" U+307B Hiragana Letter Ho "か" U+304B Hiragana Letter Ka |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🈀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🈀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x88 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDE00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F200 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\ude00 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ほ" U+307B Hiragana Letter Ho "か" U+304B Hiragana Letter Ka |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ほ" U+307B Hiragana Letter Ho "か" U+304B Hiragana Letter Ka |
| Script | Hiragana |
| Script Extensions | Hiragana |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Transformed Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |