What 🅉 means
In GNOME, press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 1f149, then Enter.
On macOS, Unicode Hex Input cannot enter this five-digit code; use Character Viewer to find and select the character.
What does 🅉 mean?
It is the Latin capital Z enclosed by a square.
The enclosed Latin alphabet was intended for lettered list markers. Parenthesized forms echo typewriter conventions for those markers; the square form belongs to the same broad family. Outside a list, nearby words show whether it marks a label or simply emphasizes Z.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Can 🅉 turn into plain Z?
Yes. If software applies NFKC, a compatibility normalization used for loose matching, it reduces this character to plain Z. The square disappears, so the forms differ when the box marks a label.
How to type 🅉
🅉\1F149Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

