U+1F23A "🈺" Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-55B6 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🈺
U+1F23A "🈺" Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-55B6 is a red square containing the white CJK ideograph for "business" or "operate," derived from the character å–¶ (yíng in Chinese, ei in Japanese). This symbol is commonly used in East Asian contexts, particularly in Japan, to indicate that a business is open or available for customers, often appearing on storefronts, signage, or mobile app interfaces to denote commercial activity or service availability. It belongs to the Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block and is encoded for use in digital text to represent the concept of operation or management in a visually compact form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F23A |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-55B6 |
| 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+55B6 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🈺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🈺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x88 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDE3A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F23A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\ude3a |
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+55B6 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "å–¶" U+55B6 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 |