U+1F237 "🈷" Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-6708 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F237 "🈷" Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-6708 is a square-enclosed Chinese ideograph representing the character "月" (yuè), which primarily means "moon" or "month." In Japanese, this symbol is often used as an emoji to indicate "monthly" or "month" in contexts like calendars or billing, and it is part of the "Squared CJK Unified Ideographs" block used for compatibility with Japanese mobile phone encoding. The character itself is derived from the CJK Unified Ideograph at code point U+6708, and its squared appearance mimics the stylized look of a seal or decorative button common in East Asian interface design.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F237 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-6708 |
| Block | Enclosed Ideographic Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Square |
| Decomposition Mapping | "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🈷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🈷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x88 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDE37 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F237 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\ude37 |
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 | "月" U+6708 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "月" U+6708 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 |
| Extended Pictographic | Yes |