What 🄿 means
It labels progressive broadcasting in Japan’s ARIB digital-TV standard.
ARIB is Japan’s Association of Radio Industries and Businesses; its STD-B24 standard covers digital-TV data broadcasting. “Progressive” means each video frame is drawn in sequence, rather than split into alternating sets of scan lines.
The standard was adopted in 1999, and a Unicode proposal in 2008 on Japanese TV symbols records this exact glyph as its progressive-broadcasting mark. That history gives the boxed P a narrow technical reading; a standalone use does not automatically carry it.
How can I type the boxed P?
In Word for Windows, enter 1F13F and press Alt+X.
In HTML source, use 🄿 or 🄿; both references represent the same character.
Specialist broadcast notation; outside TV text, the character’s meaning depends on context.
For parking, is the ARIB parking-space symbol; 🄿 is a different broadcast mark.
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1Why did the boxed P become a plain P?
NFKC can. Unicode treats the box as a compatibility distinction, which this form of normalization removes; NFC keeps it. A search or storage system applying NFKC may leave only the plain P.
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How to type or find 🄿
- Also called
- progressive broadcasting
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- boxed p · squared p · square p · arib p
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🄿\1F13F1F13F and press Alt+X; select only the code first if it follows another character.🄿 or 🄿; both character references produce 🄿.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.