What 🄭 means
The circle groups the letters; it does not decode them.
ARIB STD-B24, Japan’s data standard for digital broadcasting, was established in 1999. A 2008 proposal to encode Japanese TV symbols lists this glyph as ARIB code 9255; the aim was to give such marks shared codes instead of relying on custom font codes that other systems might read differently.
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Questions people ask
2Can CD mean Corps Diplomatique?
Yes. On a diplomatic vehicle plate, CD can stand for the French Corps Diplomatique (“diplomatic corps”). A U.S. presidential archive records an oval example from c. 1938–1940; that vehicle mark is separate from this Unicode circle.
Why can the circle disappear in text cleanup?
Unicode compatibility normalization, a text-cleanup process, can reduce this enclosed form to plain “cd.” A document or search system that applies compatibility normalization can therefore lose the circle.
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How to type or find 🄭
- Search it as
- cd in circle · cd symbol · diplomatic cd · corps diplomatique
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.