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🆐

square dj

Square DJ

🆐 is a compact way to write “DJ,” short for disc jockey, a person who selects and plays recorded music. Its square-sized form fits the two letters into one character cell; the reading stays the familiar job abbreviation.

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What 🆐 means

It means “DJ,” short for disc jockey. A disc jockey selects and plays recorded music for an audience.

🆐 packs those two Latin letters into a full-width cell, the roughly square character space used by many Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters; Unicode retained such forms for compatibility with older East Asian character sets. A 2008 Unicode draft already lists the sign as “DJ” for disc jockey; the final chart files it among compact Latin-letter sequences. In 2018, a Noto Sans Symbols v2.000 bug report noted an extra drawn box around 🆐: “square” describes a full-width character cell, while “squared” means the letters are enclosed by a drawn box.

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 1F190, 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 “square dj”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f190, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🆐
CSS
\1F190
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🆐
HTML hex
🆐
CSS content
content: "\1F190";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%86%90
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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.

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