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inverse check mark

Inverse Check Mark

🮱 is still a check mark — “checked” or “yes”, drawn in the reverse-video style of early home computers. “Inverse” names that light-on-dark contrast, not rejection; for plain chat, ✓ is clearer.

Text symbol
Search it as
checkmark · tick · inverse · inverted · reverse · retro · terminal · petscii
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🮱 means

Read it as a completed, approved, or affirmative item.

A 2019 Unicode proposal mapped it to slot 45 (hexadecimal) in the Apple II’s inverse-video range and to code FA in PETSCII, Commodore’s character set — 1970s–1980s home computing, when a check could sit light-on-dark in one fixed screen cell.

Apple II manuals from 1985–1989 document MouseText, a graphics mode that swapped part of the inverse-uppercase range for icons — a vintage program can show a different glyph in that slot.

Specialized, retro-technical; it signals a legacy-computing context.

“Inverse” is screen contrast, not rejection.

Don't confuse it with

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🮐
Inverse Medium Shade
shares “inverse”
🮑
Upper Half Block And Lower Half Inverse Medium Shade
shares “inverse”
🮒
Upper Half Inverse Medium Shade And Lower Half Block
shares “inverse”
🮔
Left Half Inverse Medium Shade And Right Half Block
shares “inverse”

Questions people ask

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Why 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 🮱

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FBB1, then Alt+X to get 🮱.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “inverse check mark”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fbb1, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🮱
CSS
\1FBB1
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🮱
HTML hex
🮱
CSS content
content: "\1FBB1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AE%B1
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Legacy computing935 symbols

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