What ⅍ means
It abbreviates aktieselskab, a Danish joint-stock company.
The A/S symbol condenses the Latin letters AS or A/S into one mark. Type variants use small capitals, a slash, or a horizontal stroke.
The company form appears in Denmark in the early seventeenth century, when overseas voyages needed pooled capital and equipment. The Danish East India Company is cited in 1616; the sign was proposed to Unicode in 2004.
Use the registered Danish company form
Use aktieselskab or A/S in a registered name.
As of 2026, Danish registration guidance specifies these forms. Treat ⅍ as a typographic rendering, not an assumed replacement.
Formal, specialist business typography for Danish company names.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does ⅍ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type ⅍
⅍\214DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.