U+1F247 "🉇" Tortoise Shell Bracketed CJK Unified Ideograph-52Dd Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F247 "🉇" Tortoise Shell Bracketed CJK Unified Ideograph-52Dd is a unique symbol found in the Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block, representing a specific Chinese character enclosed within a tortoise shell shaped bracket, a style historically used in East Asian typography for annotation or decorative emphasis. The ideograph it contains, 52Dd in hexadecimal, corresponds to the CJK Unified Ideograph "命" (meaning fate, life, or command), though the character inside the bracket is rendered as a simplified or variant form due to the enclosure. This character is rarely used in modern text but serves as a cultural and historical artifact, reflecting the intersection of script and ornamentation in digital encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F247 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tortoise Shell Bracketed CJK Unified Ideograph-52Dd |
| 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 "勝" U+52DD CJK Unified Ideograph-# "〕" U+3015 Right Tortoise Shell Bracket |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🉇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🉇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x89 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDE47 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F247 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\ude47 |