U+1F200 "🈀" Square Hiragana Hoka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1F200 "🈀" Square Hiragana Hoka is an enclosed ideographic character from the Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block, representing the Japanese hiragana reading "hoka" (ほか) within a square frame. This symbol is historically used in Japan as a decorative or informative marker, often found on signs, documents, or labels to mean "other" or "elsewhere" in contexts like forms, menus, or directories. It is distinct from standard text characters because it combines a hiragana sound with a fixed square enclosure, making it a unique CJK compatibility symbol for specialized or legacy Japanese typesetting.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1F200
Name
Square Hiragana Hoka
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
🈀
HTML Hex Encoding
🈀
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x9F 0x88 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD83C 0xDE00
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001F200
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud83c\ude00
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Hiragana