B button (blood type)

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Shortcode
:b:
Shortcode
:b_button_blood_type:
Unicode
U+1F171
HTML
🅱
CSS
\1F171
JavaScript
"\u{1F171}"
URL
%F0%9F%85%B1%EF%B8%8F

Bbloodbuttontype

What ๐Ÿ…ฑ๏ธ means

A white B in a red box, for blood type B. Online it is far better known for the ๐Ÿ…ฑ๏ธ meme.

In the meme, people swap a letter in a word for ๐Ÿ…ฑ๏ธ to make it sound silly or tough, as in '๐Ÿ…ฑ๏ธruh'. It also marks a B grade, option B, or blood type B in donation posts.

Facts

B button (blood type) ๐Ÿ…ฑ๏ธ is an emoji in the symbols category, under alphanum. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :b: or :b_button_blood_type:. People also look for it with words like โ€œBโ€, โ€œbloodโ€, โ€œbuttonโ€, or โ€œtypeโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. B button (blood type), Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. B button (blood type), Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. B button (blood type), Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. B button (blood type), Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

symbols ยท Unicode 6.0