U+1FBC4 "🯄" Negative Squared Question Mark Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

🯄
Source: Noto Sans Symbols 2 Source: Browser Default

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.

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