U+1F223 "🈣" Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-8Ca9 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🈣
U+1F223 "🈣" Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-8Ca9 is a square-shaped symbol that encloses the Chinese character for "congratulations" or "felicitations," derived from the CJK Unified Ideograph U+8CA9. It belongs to the Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block in Unicode and is primarily used in Japanese signage and branding to convey positive sentiments or to celebrate an occasion, often appearing on product packaging, stickers, or promotional materials. This character functions as an ideographic emoji, combining the traditional logographic meaning with a square enclosure to create a compact and visually distinct symbol for digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F223 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-8Ca9 |
| Block | Enclosed Ideographic Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "販" U+8CA9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🈣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🈣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x88 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDE23 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F223 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\ude23 |
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 | "販" U+8CA9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "販" U+8CA9 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 |