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squared wc

Squared WC

🅏 marks a toilet or public restroom: the square holds the initials WC. The English phrase behind those letters is “water closet”; on public signs, the boxed form makes that label compact. French uses W.-C. as a familiar spoken abbreviation, while English dictionaries mark spoken WC old-fashioned.

Text symbol

Search it as: wc · wc sign · toilet sign · public toilet · restroom sign
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🅏 means

“Water closet” is recorded by 1755 for a small private room with a toilet flushed by water; W.C. is recorded by 1815 as a toilet abbreviation. The square turns those initials into a single, sign-like text character.

English dictionaries label spoken WC old-fashioned; French uses W.-C. as a familiar spoken abbreviation.

Don't confuse it with

🆏

Negative Squared Wc

🆏 is the negative squared WC: the contrast is reversed, with light letters on a dark square.

Questions people ask

Why did this turn into plain WC?

NFKC, a Unicode text-cleanup form, unfolds 🅏 to plain `WC` when software applies it. The restroom meaning stays, but the square styling does not.

How to type 🅏

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType 1F14F, 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 “squared wc”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f14f, then Enter or Space.

HTML

🅏

CSS

\1F14F

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

🅏

HTML hex

🅏

CSS content

content: "\1F14F";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9F%85%8F

On screen

Code points

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UTF-8 bytes

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