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 🅰 or 🅾 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

🅱

Unicode

U+1F171

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f171:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDD71;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Symbols

Subcategory alphanum

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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