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

Information about emoji NEGATIVE SQUARED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B
- Unicode Name
- NEGATIVE SQUARED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B
- Unicode Codepoint
- U+1F171 U+FE0F
- Category
- Symbols
- Subcategory
- Letters & Numbers
- Slug
- b
Meaning and description of emoticon 🅱️
The 🅱️ emoji depicts a capital Latin letter "B" in a dark square — a laconic black-and-white sign with sharp form contrast. Classified as Symbols in Unicode.
🅱️ in chats conveys the letter label B, a blood type designation, and a brief category marker — "it refers to the letter B" or "this is about a blood type." It's most often paired with
,
, or
, and in messages it reads as "A clear mark with the letter B is needed here 🅱️," serving as crisp labeling for quick designations. The B button is usually read not as the alphabet in itself, but as a ready-made sign for categorical markings.
Usage Examples 🅱️
| Format | Code | |
|---|---|---|
| Shortcode (Slack) | :b: | |
| Shortcode (Discord) | :b: | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :b: | |
| HTML Dec | 🅱️ | |
| HTML Hex | 🅱️ | |
| CSS | content: "\1F171\FE0F"; | |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001F171\U0000FE0F | |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83C\uDD71\uFE0F | |
| Perl | \x{1F171}\x{FE0F} | |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1F171 FE0F} | |
| Punycode | xn--v86c1014b | |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%85%B1%EF%B8%8F | |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 85 B1 EF B8 8F |