U+1F232 "🈲" Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-7981 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🈲
U+1F232 "🈲" Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-7981 is a square-shaped symbol enclosing the Chinese character "禁," which means "forbidden" or "prohibited." This character belongs to the Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block and is commonly used in East Asian digital contexts, particularly on signage or interface buttons, to indicate that an action, item, or content is not allowed or is restricted. Its design often appears in applications like emoji keyboards or as a pictographic label for banned substances, smoking prohibitions, or other regulatory warnings, serving as a clear visual shorthand for the concept of prohibition across languages that use Chinese characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F232 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-7981 |
| Block | Enclosed Ideographic Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "禁" U+7981 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🈲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🈲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x88 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDE32 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F232 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\ude32 |
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 | "禁" U+7981 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "禁" U+7981 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 |
| Emoji | Yes |
| Emoji Presentation | Yes |
| Extended Pictographic | Yes |