What 🅯 means
Credit the creator or source.
Creative Commons introduced the stick figure in its Attribution icon in 2006, replacing the English “BY” letters with a person symbol. The mark identifies the attribution condition; other license terms still matter.
In 🅯, identifies Creative Commons, 🅯 attribution, and ShareAlike. A font draws 🅯 as text, so a device without a supporting font may show an empty box.
Formal; it belongs beside a license or credit notice.
It does not by itself prove the work is free to use.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsIt marks the attribution condition; check the other marks for additional terms.
Related characters
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Combination ideas
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.
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How to type or find 🅯
- Search it as
- CC BY · attribution · credit · license mark
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🅯\1F16FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.