What ๐ means
Capital letters ABCD in a box, the symbol for an uppercase input mode. It stands for capital letters, caps lock, or shouting.
People use ๐ to joke that they are about to type in all caps, to talk about fonts and lettering, or to tag spelling and alphabet lessons. It is rare in everyday chat.
Facts
Input latin uppercase ๐ 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 :capital_abcd: or :input_latin_uppercase:. People also look for it with words like โABCDโ, โinputโ, โlatinโ, or โlettersโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
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