U+1F21A Squared CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​7121

U+1F21A was added in Unicode version 5.2 in 2009. It belongs to the block U+1F200 to U+1F2FF Enclosed Ideographic Supplement in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as free broadcasting service and non-existence sign.

The glyph is a square version of the glyph CJK Unified Ideograph-7121. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F21A offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The CLDR project calls this character “Japanese “free of charge” button” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: “free of charge”, ideograph, Japanese, 無.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 🈚︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.