Squared Capital D

The squared D is the Latin capital D inside a square; by itself, read it as D with a frame. It can serve as a compact letter marker, and some Unicode text cleanup removes the frame.

Text symbol

What 🄳 means

It is D inside a square, usually a visual label. The frame can make a D-labeled item stand out in a list or compact label; it does not give the letter another sound.

Its documented Unicode history starts in 2009, when Irish and German standards bodies proposed filling gaps in the squared and negative Latin-letter sets. Working-group minutes note that the proposed forms were not all individually attested. 🄳 was among the proposed entries and entered Unicode 6.0 in 2010.

Does normalization turn it into a plain D?

Yes: NFKC text cleanup turns it into plain D. NFKC is a Unicode text-normalization form that removes compatibility styling, so software using it can preserve the letter but drop the square. If the frame matters, check how the receiving system handles normalization.

Part of the collection

🅰

Square Letters & Symbols (Box Letters)

Don't confuse it with

🇩

Regional Indicator Symbol Letter D

🇩 is a regional indicator: paired with another, it can form a flag; alone, many fonts show it as a boxed D.

Combination ideas

Done, task finished.

DM me, send a direct message.

Dog caption with a puppy face.

DJ in a bio, with headphones.

Questions people ask

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.