U+1F248 "🉈" Tortoise Shell Bracketed CJK Unified Ideograph-6557 Unicode Character
U+1F248 "🉈" Tortoise Shell Bracketed CJK Unified Ideograph-6557 is a unique glyph that combines a standard Chinese character with a decorative tortoise shell bracket. The enclosed ideograph, identified by the code 6557, represents a specific Han character, though its exact meaning and modern usage are rare and often tied to historical or specialized contexts. Tortoise shell brackets have been used in traditional East Asian manuscripts and inscriptions to enclose or annotate text, often signifying a citation, a proper noun, or a revered term, adding a layer of formality or ornamentation. As part of the Unicode standard's "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" block, this character serves primarily as a typographical or decorative symbol rather than a functional writing element in contemporary digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F248 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tortoise Shell Bracketed CJK Unified Ideograph-6557 |
| 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 "敗" U+6557 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "〕" U+3015 Right Tortoise Shell Bracket |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🉈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🉈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x89 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDE48 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F248 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\ude48 |