What 🆥 means
It is a data label for a Japanese TV guide.
An electronic program guide is the on-screen TV schedule; the boxed d was proposed to mark one program feature.
Japan’s broadcasting-industry association ARIB issued STD-B62, its second-generation digital-broadcast standard, in 2014. In 2015, Japan proposed 🆥 among boxed labels for electronic program guides (on-screen TV schedules), alongside marks for high-resolution picture and sound; the labels were meant to travel as plain text across devices. Earlier ARIB STD-B24 program-guide symbols entered Unicode in 2009 partly to avoid clashes with private character codes.
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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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- boxed d · data label · tv guide · japanese tv mark · arib · b62
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🆥\1F1A5Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.