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B button (blood type)

B button (blood type) Emoji

Symbols

A vibrant red square containing the bold white capital letter 'B'. It mimics the look of a physical button or an indicator light found on control panels.

Usage Context

While originally designed to denote blood type B, it gained massive popularity in internet culture as a way to replace the letter 'b' in words for comedic effect or to signal irony. It is frequently paired with other letter buttons like šŸ…° or šŸ…¾ to create custom text-based messages or signatures.

History

Included in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the B button was originally intended for medical identification in Japanese digital messaging services, where indicating blood type is a common cultural shorthand for describing personality traits.

Details

Glyph
šŸ…±
Unicode
U+1F171
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f171:
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
bblood typebuttonred squareletter Bbloodalphanummemeslang

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.

Apache 2.0SIL OFL 1.1Noto Repository

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