What 🆋 means
It marks a highway interchange or ramp.
Japan’s ARIB STD-B24 digital-broadcast standard includes it among highway symbols; expressway signs use IC for interchanges.
A 2008 Unicode proposal mapped ARIB symbol 9134 to “interchange or ramp.”
What does 🆋 mean in a message?
In route messages, read it as a road marker.
In English chat, plain IC can abbreviate “I see” (“I understand”); without route context, check the sender’s meaning.
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 🆋
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1F18B, 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 “negative squared ic”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f18b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🆋CSS
\1F18BWindows Word
Type 1F18B, then Alt+X.
Mac
Use the “Unicode Hex Input” source: Option+1F18B.
Linux
Press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 1f18b, then Enter.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🆋
HTML hex
🆋
CSS content
content: "\1F18B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%86%8B
1
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.