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

&#xD83C;&#xDD8E;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Symbols

Subcategory alphanum

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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