U+1F211 "🈑" Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-5B57 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F211 "🈑" Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-5B57 is a square-shaped enclosure containing the Chinese character "å—" (U+5B57), which means "character," "letter," or "word" in various East Asian languages, and is part of the Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block used primarily in Japanese signage and digital communication to represent the concept of a character or text input. This symbol often appears in user interface contexts, such as on keyboards or in software settings, to denote text entry modes or character input functions, and its squared design helps it stand out as a compact, easily recognizable icon.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F211 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-5B57 |
| Block | Enclosed Ideographic Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "å—" U+5B57 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🈑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🈑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x88 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDE11 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F211 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\ude11 |
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 | "å—" U+5B57 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "å—" U+5B57 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |