U+1F12E · Other symbol
Circled Wz Symbol 🄮
🄮 is circled wz, U+1F12E. Unicode records it as a compatibility form of WZ (circle form). It was added in Unicode 5.2, and Unicode files it under Other symbol.
What Unicode says about 🄮
from the German term "Warenzeichen"
indicate a trademarked term without making a legal claim of trademark status
decomposition is anomalous, as the usual glyph shows a capital W and a small z
— annotation from the Unicode Standard, NamesList.txt
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F12E | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🄮 | |
| HTML decimal | 🄮 | |
| CSS | \1F12E | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F12E} | |
| Python | \U0001F12E | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDD2E | |
| Rust | \u{1f12e} | |
| Swift | \u{1F12E} | |
| PHP | \u{1F12E} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%84%AE | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 84 AE | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DD2E | |
| Base64 | 8J+Erg== | |
| Decimal | 127278 | |
| Decomposes to | WZ (circle form) | |
| Category | Other symbol (So) | |
| Introduced | Unicode 5.2 | |
Will 🄮 survive being pasted?
- Normalisation. No. Anything that applies NFKC — search indexes, usernames, domain names, programming identifiers — rewrites 🄮 as
WZ. Safe for display, not for storage. - Legacy encodings. 🄮 sits above U+FFFF, so it needs a surrogate pair in UTF-16. Software that counts characters by code unit will report it as two.
- Size. 4 bytes in UTF-8. Character-limited fields — SMS, bios, some form validators — usually count bytes, not characters.
Unicode cross-references
The standard points readers of 🄮 at these characters — usually because they look alike, or because one is the correct choice where the other is often used by mistake.
Nearby in Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
Letters and numbers in squares, circles and boxes beyond what the original enclosed block held, including the regional-indicator letters that flag emoji are assembled from.
How to type 🄮
| Windows | Type 1F12E then press Alt+X |
|---|---|
| macOS | Press Ctrl+Cmd+Space, then search for “circled wz” |
| Linux | Press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 1f12e, press Enter |
| HTML | 🄮 |
About Unicode’s Other symbol category
Unicode files this under "other symbol" — the catch-all for pictographs, signs and marks that are neither maths, currency, nor letter-like. It is the largest symbol category in the standard.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I type the 🄮 circled wz symbol?
- On Windows, type 1F12E and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 1f12e. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
- What is the code for 🄮?
- Circled Wz is U+1F12E. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
- Will 🄮 survive being pasted anywhere?
- Not always. Circled Wz is a compatibility character: any system that applies Unicode NFKC normalisation — search indexes, usernames, identifiers — replaces it with WZ. Use it for display, not where text is normalised.