A bold little square with big white letters, the AB button (blood type) is the red–to–orange rounded tile that screams “AB” like a glossy hospital sign meets a retro app icon. On Apple/iOS it’s a saturated fire‑engine red/orange gradient square with softly rounded corners and crisp white, centered “AB” in a clean sans‑serif—no face, no border, just stark, high-contrast vibes. It visually matches the iOS family of text-on-square icons like SOS, NEW, and CL.
Culturally, it taps into East Asian blood-type lore—yes, the personality thing you see in anime bios and K‑pop profiles—where AB is the quirky enigma, the chaotic genius, the “I contain multitudes” friend. In chats, it can literally flag someone’s blood type, tag donation drives, or jokingly label somebody’s vibe as “AB energy.” You’ll also see it in medical or hospital contexts, especially when talking compatibility or rare-type shoutouts.
Internet-wise, people drop it as a cheeky stand‑in for “both A and B,” the ultimate both/and mood: ambivert today, contradictory tomorrow. Product folks toss it in Slack for A/B testing talk, meme lords use it to signal split opinions, and the sarcastic crowd deploys it when they want to be extra: “Why choose? AB.” It can even read flirty or dramatic when someone flexes their “mysterious hybrid” persona.
Definition
Red Blood Type AB Icon. iEmoji old name: Blood Type AB.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
1034 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:ab:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Negative Squared AB AB Button (blood Type)
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
Unicode Range
1F173–1F1FF
Unicode Subcategory
White on Black Squared Latin Letters
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory
White on Black Squared Latin Letters
Names & Annotations
NEGATIVE SQUARED AB = blood type AB
Symbol Information
U+1F18E proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-50D
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[AB]
KDDI
#727 ＡＢ型 U+EB29 SJIS-F3EA JIS-7A6C
Softbank
#420 #old475 AB U+E534 SJIS-FBD4
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🆎
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🆎
Decimal HTML Entity
🆎
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🆎
Hex Code Point(s)
1f18e
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F18E
Decimal Code Point(s)
127374
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x86 0x8E
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 86 8E
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 206 216
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDD8E
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdd8e
UTF-16 Dec
55356 56718
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F18E
UTF-32 Hex
01F18E
UTF-32 Dec
127374
Python Src
u"\U0001F18E"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x86\x8e"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDD8E"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
