Emoji 🅰️ (NEGATIVE SQUARED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A): meaning and Unicode code
Meaning of the emoji 🅰️ (NEGATIVE SQUARED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A), Unicode code, HTML entity, and usage examples. Copy the symbol with one click.

Information about emoji NEGATIVE SQUARED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
- Unicode Name
- NEGATIVE SQUARED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
- Unicode Codepoint
- U+1F170 U+FE0F
- Category
- Symbols
- Subcategory
- Letters & Numbers
- Slug
- a
Meaning and description of emoticon 🅰️
The 🅰️ emoji depicts a capital Latin letter "A" in a dark square — a contrasting symbol with negative space in a crisp geometric form. Part of the Unicode standard, "Symbols" category.
🅰️ in chats conveys the letter label A, a blood type designation, and a short utility marker — "the letter A matters here" or "clear labeling is needed." It's most often paired with
,
, or
, and in messages it reads as "This looks like an administrative or medical designation 🅰️," fitting for brief category markings. This symbol can signify not the letter itself, but the official format of a short and readable mark.
Usage Examples 🅰️
| Format | Code | |
|---|---|---|
| Shortcode (Slack) | :a: | |
| Shortcode (Discord) | :a: | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :a: | |
| HTML Dec | 🅰️ | |
| HTML Hex | 🅰️ | |
| CSS | content: "\1F170\FE0F"; | |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001F170\U0000FE0F | |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83C\uDD70\uFE0F | |
| Perl | \x{1F170}\x{FE0F} | |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1F170 FE0F} | |
| Punycode | xn--v86cz014b | |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%85%B0%EF%B8%8F | |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 85 B0 EF B8 8F |