U+1F22D "🈭" Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-4E2D Unicode Character

U+1F22D "🈭" Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-4E2D is a symbol from the Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block, designed as a squared version of the CJK Unified Ideograph 中 which means "middle" or "center" in Chinese and Japanese. It is commonly used in Japanese signage and user interfaces to indicate a state of being in progress, active, or intermediate, such as in the context of a "play" button or a "mid" setting on appliances. This character is part of a set of squared ideographs that provide a compact, visually distinct way to represent common words, often enclosed in a square to mimic physical buttons or labels in digital and print environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F22D
Version Added	5.2
Name	Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-4E2D
Block	Enclosed Ideographic Supplement
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Square
Decomposition Mapping	"中" U+4E2D CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	🈭
HTML Hex Encoding	🈭
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9F 0x88 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83C 0xDE2D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F22D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83c\ude2d

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	"中" U+4E2D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold	"中" U+4E2D 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