What 🆅 means
The letter reading stays V.
A Unicode standards paper dated 2009-03-25 lists this negative squared V among enclosed Latin letters. Some members of the set have labels for Japanese digital broadcasting under ARIB STD-B24, a standard for coding and transmitting digital-broadcast data.
An empty box means your font or fallback cannot display this glyph.
Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Why does 🆅 show as a box?
It means your font or fallback lacks the glyph.
How to type 🆅
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1F185, 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 latin capital letter v”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f185, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🆅CSS
\1F185Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🆅
HTML hex
🆅
CSS content
content: "\1F185";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%86%85
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.

