What 🅫 means
It marks a registered trademark in Canadian French use.
MD abbreviates French marque déposée (“registered trademark”). By 2005, Quebec’s French-language authority described MD in small capitals above the line as an optional mark after a registered trademark. A 2010 Unicode proposal sought a single text character because typeset superscript letters could disrupt line spacing.
This Canadian French pair distinguishes registered MD from unregistered MC; is another registered-mark sign. NFKC, Unicode’s compatibility cleanup, turns 🅫 into plain MD and removes its raised styling.
A compact legal mark, formal and matter-of-fact.
MD means registered; MC means a trademark that is not registered.
Questions 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 🅫
- Also called
- marque déposée · MD
- Search it as
- marque · déposée · registered · trademark · quebec · canada
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🅫\1F16BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.