🅱

🅱 U+1F171, 🅱 NEGATIVE SQUARED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B ← 🅰 [U+1F170] Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement 🅲 → [U+1F172]

Translingual

Etymology

The encoding was introduced in 2010 to be used for blood type B, and emojified in 2015. A year later, when the emoji was widely available, this brought up the idea of replacing c letters the way Bloods are imagined to do in avoidance of the name of the Crips. Compare bool.

Presentations of 🅱︎

Text style	Emoji style
🅱︎	🅱️
Note: Character's appearance may be different on each system. Text style is forced with ︎ and emoji style with ️

Symbol

🅱

1. blood type B

Simulfix

🅱

1. (Internet slang) replaces arbitrary characters, particularly those representing plosives, to make shitposts; serves satirical misspelling
   • 2016
     NI🅱️🅱️A

     nigga

     written on t-shirts one can buy

   • 2020, 🅱️iggest Meme on Campus 2020‎^[1] (in English), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Epsilon Zeta chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, archived from the original on 15 June 2021:

     I, Corey 🅱️. Woodcock am running for 🅱️iggest Meme on Campus. I have a long, consistent history of meming and meme making. I have a Ph.D. from North🅱️eastern University in the Socioeconomic Effects of Memes in the 21st Century. I am currently a 🅱️rofessor of Memology 1100 and Mastery of Memes 4200.

   • 2020, Gintoki, 🅱️undyCast-BundayCast2020 (in English):

     title of a podcast series published by various podcast networks

   • 2021, Aarav Patel, Master 🅱️lan (in English):

     [Description of this podcast series is given as follows: ] F1 podcast hosted by three of the most unqualified people. Here at the Master 🅱️lan we talk f1 news, predictions and enquire about what exactly is the Master 🅱️ lan.

Derived terms

• Russian: 🅰️🅱️🅾️🅱️🅰️, alternative spelling for the name of the political candidate Або́ба (Abóba) invented in February 2021 whose name is interjected in sundry moods