U+2122 "™" Trade Mark Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2122 "™" Trade Mark Sign is a typographic symbol used to indicate that a preceding word, phrase, or logo is claimed as a trademark by an individual or business, though it is generally not granted the same level of legal registration or protection as the circled "®" (Registered Sign). This character is distinct from the two-letter sequence "TM" and is encoded as a single glyph in Unicode for consistency across digital text, making it commonly employed in branding, advertising, and product packaging to assert ownership of a mark that may be pending registration or used under common law rights. Its presence signals an intent to protect intellectual property without the formalities of full government registration.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2122 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Trade Mark Sign |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Trademark |
| Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Super |
| Decomposition Mapping | "T" U+0054 Latin Capital Letter T "M" U+004D Latin Capital Letter M |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ™ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ™ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x84 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2122 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002122 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2122 |