U+1F5AA "🖪" Black Hard Shell Floppy Disk Unicode Character

U+1F5AA "🖪" Black Hard Shell Floppy Disk is a pictographic representation of a now obsolete 3.5 inch floppy disk, characterized by its rigid black plastic casing and sliding metal shutter, which was a standard portable storage medium for computers from the late 1980s through the early 2000s. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and was added to the Unicode Standard in version 7.0 to serve as a nostalgic icon for saving data in digital interfaces and to represent obsolete computer hardware in text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F5AA
Version Added	7.0
Name	Black Hard Shell Floppy Disk
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 0x96 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDDAA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F5AA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\uddaa

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
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