U+1FBC4 "🯄" Negative Squared Question Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1FBC4 "🯄" Negative Squared Question Mark is a relatively obscure and rarely used symbol, part of the Symbols for Legacy Computing supplement block, and it is intended to represent a question mark rendered as a negative (reversed) image inside a square, a display format historically found on certain computing systems and terminals from the 1970s and 1980s. Its primary purpose is to serve as a Unicode encoding for a specific glyph that appeared on vintage hardware, such as early personal computers or teletext systems, where it might have been used to indicate an undisplayable character, an unknown value, or a special prompt in a monochrome reverse-video interface. Unlike more common question mark glyphs, this character is not designed for typical punctuation usage but rather for preserving the exact visual representation of these legacy computing environments in digital text.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
🯄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
🯄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x9F 0xAF 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD83E 0xDFC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0001FBC4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud83e\udfc4 |
Unicode Properties