Combining enclosing keycap Emoji

Symbols

A transparent modifier character that functions as a structural overlay, placing a square border around the preceding alphanumeric or symbol character. It transforms standard text characters into a button-like format.

Usage Context

This character is the mechanical backbone of the keycap series. It is used to generate specific icons like 1⃣ or #⃣ by combining the base character with this enclosing mark. Users rarely input this character alone, as it requires a companion character to create a visible, boxed-in output.

History

Included in Unicode 3.0 in 1999, this character was developed to ensure that legacy Japanese mobile handsets could render numeric buttons and command symbols correctly. By using a combining character, engineers avoided the need to create thousands of individual, hard-coded images for every possible button combination.

Details

Glyph

⃣

Unicode

U+20E3

Shortcode

:emoji_u20e3:

HTML Entity

⃣

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Symbols

Subcategory keycap

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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