U+1F530 "🔰" Japanese Symbol for Beginner Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F530 "🔰" Japanese Symbol for Beginner is a pictographic representation of a yellow and green shield, known in Japan as the "shoshinsha mark." It is a mandatory emblem displayed by new drivers in Japan for one year after obtaining a license, serving as a visual warning to other drivers that the operator is inexperienced and may require extra caution. Beyond its literal driving context, the symbol has been widely adopted in digital communication and pop culture to denote newcomers, novices, or the start of a learning phase in various activities and communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F530 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Japanese Symbol for Beginner |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🔰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🔰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x94 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD30 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F530 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd30 |