U+1F5B8 "🖸" Optical Disc Icon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🖸
U+1F5B8 "🖸" Optical Disc Icon is a graphic symbol that represents an optical disc, such as a CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc, typically depicted as a circular disc with a shiny or reflective surface. It was introduced as part of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block in Unicode 7.0, released in 2014, to provide a standardized way to represent digital storage media in electronic documents and interfaces. The icon does not specify a disc type or format, making it a general-purpose symbol for optical media in contexts ranging from user interfaces to textual descriptions of data storage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F5B8 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Optical Disc Icon |
| 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 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDDB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F5B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\uddb8 |
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 |