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Ab button (blood type)

Ab button (blood type) Emoji

Symbols

A bold, white capital 'A' and 'B' enclosed within a bright red square button. The design mimics the physical indicator tiles used in medical records or on hospital blood-type identification badges.

Usage Context

While it technically denotes the AB blood type, most people use it to clarify medical information, express a blood-type personality trait, or label a category. It is often seen alongside other blood type indicators like 🅰 or 🅱.

History

This emoji originated from the Japanese mobile industry, where displaying blood type was a standard feature of personal profile pages. It was codified into Unicode 6.0 in 2010 to ensure Japanese mobile carriers could maintain parity with their existing character sets.

Details

Glyph
🆎
Unicode
U+1F18E
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f18e:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Google
Category Symbols
Subcategory alphanum
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Tags
ab buttonred squarealphabetblood typemedicalhospitalblood donationtype ablabelcategory

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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Related Symbols Emojis

Digit zero Digit one Digit two Digit three Digit four Digit five Digit six Digit seven Digit eight Digit nine A button (blood type) B button (blood type)