U+1F23B "🈻" Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-914D Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1F23B "🈻" Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-914D is a square enclosing the CJK ideograph U+914D, which is the character for the word "pei" or "bae" in Chinese and Japanese, often translated as "to match," "to pair," or "distribute," and in everyday use it appears in terms like "distribution" or "allocation." This character belongs to the "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" Unicode block, where it is intended for use as a decorative or symbolic square icon, primarily in East Asian digital environments such as emoji sets or on mobile phones. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard allows for consistent representation across platforms of this specific squared ideograph, which can serve as a compact visual shorthand for concepts related to matching or pairing in text.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F23B
Version Added 9.0
Name Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-914D
Block Enclosed Ideographic Supplement
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Square
Decomposition Mapping "配" U+914D CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 🈻
HTML Hex Encoding 🈻
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9F 0x88 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83C 0xDE3B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F23B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83c\ude3b

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 "配" U+914D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "配" U+914D 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