Private use character Emoji

Symbols

A placeholder glyph representing a character from the Private Use Area (PUA) of the Unicode standard. It appears as an empty box or a specialized icon depending on the font and device rendering it, as it lacks a standardized definition.

Usage Context

Used by software developers and system engineers to denote custom characters or icons that do not exist in the universal character set. It is frequently encountered when a system tries to display a proprietary emoji from an incompatible platform, similar to the ? or the replacement character.

History

These characters were reserved by the Unicode Consortium to allow companies like Apple, Google, or Microsoft to define their own internal symbols without interfering with global standards. Before emoji became standardized across all devices, these private characters were the primary way platforms sent custom graphics to each other.

Details

Glyph

󾠫

Unicode

U+FE82B

Shortcode

:emoji_ufe82b:

HTML Entity

&#xDBBA;&#xDC2B;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Symbols

Subcategory other-symbol

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

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 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository