Trade mark Emoji

Symbols

A small, bold 'TM' text character rendered in superscript. It serves as a marker to indicate that a word, phrase, or logo is claimed as a brand, even if it hasn't undergone formal government registration.

Usage Context

Used in casual conversation or social media to sarcastically claim ownership of a witty phrase, a recurring joke, or a personal catchphrase. It acts as a humorous way to signal that you coined an idea, often paired with emojis like 😂 or 😏 to highlight the irony.

History

The trademark symbol has been a standard feature of typewriter character sets for decades to help businesses denote proprietary branding. It was officially adopted into the Unicode standard in 1993, ensuring that early internet users could denote intellectual property claims across various text-based communication platforms.

Details

Glyph

™

Unicode

U+2122

Shortcode

:emoji_u2122:

HTML Entity

™

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Symbols

Subcategory other-symbol

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

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