U+1F6E1 "🛡" Shield Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🛡
U+1F6E1 "🛡" Shield is a pictographic representation of a classic heraldic or medieval shield, often depicted as a solid, rounded metal object with a distinctive shape. It belongs to the Transport and Map Symbols block, having been added in Unicode 7.0, and is commonly used in digital communication to symbolize protection, defense, security, or the concept of a barrier against harm. This character can also represent fantasy or historical themes involving knights, warriors, or armorial crests, making it a versatile emblem in emoji form for both literal and metaphorical contexts of safeguarding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F6E1 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Shield |
| Block | Transport and Map Symbols |
| 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 0x9B 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDEE1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F6E1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udee1 |
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 |
| Emoji | Yes |
| Extended Pictographic | Yes |