U+1F244 "🉄" Tortoise Shell Bracketed CJK Unified Ideograph-70B9 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🉄
U+1F244 "🉄" Tortoise Shell Bracketed CJK Unified Ideograph-70B9 is a unique symbol that combines the Chinese character for "point" or "dot" (U+70B9) enclosed within the outline of a tortoise shell bracket, a stylized shape resembling the curved carapace of a turtle. This character belongs to the "Enclosed Ideographic Supplement" block of Unicode, where it is used in East Asian typography and decorative contexts, often to represent a marker, a key concept, or a point of emphasis in traditional text or visual design. Its design evokes classical Chinese emblematic patterns, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that this culturally specific glyph can be digitally rendered and exchanged across modern platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F244 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tortoise Shell Bracketed CJK Unified Ideograph-70B9 |
| Block | Enclosed Ideographic Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "〔" U+3014 Left Tortoise Shell Bracket "点" U+70B9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "〕" U+3015 Right Tortoise Shell Bracket |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🉄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🉄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x89 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDE44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F244 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\ude44 |