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🆎AB Button (Blood Type) Emoji
The AB button (blood type) emoji 🆎 carries the codepoint U+1F18E and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Symbols → Alphanumeric Symbols.
What 🆎 AB button (blood type) means
Squared letter and word buttons, most of them inherited wholesale from Japanese carrier emoji and never rethought since. 🆒, 🆕, 🆓 and 🆗 still see use as labels, and 🆘 is read as a genuine call for help. 🅰️, 🅱️, 🅾️ and 🆎 are blood-type buttons, a category that matters in Japan, where blood type is discussed the way star signs are elsewhere.
Unicode tags this one ab, blood and button and files it under Symbols → Alphanumeric Symbols.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F18E | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🆎 | |
| HTML decimal | 🆎 | |
| CSS | \1F18E | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F18E} | |
| Python | \U0001F18E | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDD8E | |
| Rust | \u{1f18e} | |
| Swift | \u{1F18E} | |
| PHP | \u{1F18E} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%86%8E | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 86 8E | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DD8E | |
| Base64 | 8J+Gjg== | |
| Decimal | 127374 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- ab
- blood
- button
- type
How to type 🆎
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “AB button (blood type)”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “ab”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f18eand Enter. - HTML — paste
🆎.
How 🆎 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🆎Apple
- 🆎Segoe
- 🆎Noto
- 🆎System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🆎 AB button (blood type) emoji mean?+
🆎 is the AB button (blood type) emoji, tagged ab, blood and button. Squared letter and word buttons, most of them inherited wholesale from Japanese carrier emoji and never rethought since. 🆒, 🆕, 🆓 and 🆗 still see use as labels, and 🆘 is read as a genuine call for help. 🅰️, 🅱️, 🅾️ and 🆎 are blood-type buttons, a category that matters in Japan, where blood type is discussed the way star signs are elsewhere.
What is the Unicode code for 🆎?+
AB button (blood type) is U+1F18E. In HTML that is 🆎, in CSS \1F18E, and in JavaScript \u{1F18E}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🆎 emoji added?+
AB button (blood type) got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Alphanumeric Symbols in Symbols.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🆎 AB button (blood type).