Ⓜ️ is the big-city shortcut: a bold capital M parked inside a blue circle that screams “Metro this way.” On Apple/iOS, it’s a crisp white M centered in a glossy, gradient blue circle with a subtle dark outline—clean, sign-like, and instantly readable. People drop it in travel posts and directions to mean subway/underground—think “Meet at Ⓜ️,” “Hop on the Ⓜ️ to downtown,” or a caption under a station selfie. It vibes like a transit sticker you’d see on platforms from Paris to Seoul, so it’s perfect for commute updates, city-core aesthetics, and map screenshots.
Beyond trains, it moonlights as a cheeky stand-in for any word starting with M: Monday (mood), money (manifesting), mom (texting shorthand), or M-rated content (gamers wink). It can be used ironically—“Ⓜ️ for ‘meh’ Monday”—or playfully dramatic, like a nod to spy-master “M” or Mario’s cap if you’re memeing. Expect it in city-travel threads, itinerary reels, or when you want a clean, bold letter badge without spelling things out. Just don’t confuse it with the golden arches—this one’s public transit, not fast food.
Definition
How unique. Everyone who's first or last name starts with M is lucky.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
The code generated for this emoji was changed slightly in iOS 7 / OSX 10.9 (a variation selector was added) advising the OS to display character emoji style instead of black and white text when available. We don't mind Apple, thank you! We just love our emojis! [Sources 11438-emoji-var.pdf 13.7 Variation Selectors (unicode.org)]
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
771 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
:m:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Circled Latin Capital Letter M Circled M
Circled Latin Capitol Letter M
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Enclosed Alphanumerics
Unicode Range
2460–24FF
Unicode Subcategory
Circled Latin Letters
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Vehicles
Names & Annotations
CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M Temporary Notes: Disunified from SUBWAY symbols from KDDI and Softbank. Was originally proposed as a new "METRO SIGN" symbol but then unified with Ⓜ U+24C2 CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M because several variants of a stylized "M" are found for different Metro systems, including a circled M. (Project issue 92.)
Symbol Information
Ⓜ U+24C2 unified (Unicode 1.1)
Proposal Identifier
e-7E1
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#31 'Subway' 地下鉄 U+E65C SJIS-F8BD JIS-786E
KDDI
#341 地下鉄 U+E5BC SJIS-F7EC JIS-786E
Softbank
#206 #old399 地下鉄 U+E434 SJIS-FB74
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 Code
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)
24c2
Formal Unicode Notation
U+24C2
Decimal Code Point(s)
9410
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x93 0x82
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 93 82
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 223 202
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x24C2
UTF-16 Hex
24c2
UTF-16 Dec
9410
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x000024C2
UTF-32 Hex
24C2
UTF-32 Dec
9410
Python Src
u"\u24C2"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x93\x82"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u24C2"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 7 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
Ⓜ️
UTF-8 Character Count
2
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
Ⓜ️
Decimal HTML Entity
Ⓜ ️
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
Ⓜ ️
Hex Code Point(s)
24c2, fe0f
Formal Unicode Notation
U+24C2, U+FE0F
Decimal Code Point(s)
9410, 65039
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x93 0x82, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 93 82, EF B8 8F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 223 202, 357 270 217
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x24C2, 0xFE0F
UTF-16 Hex
24c2, fe0f
UTF-16 Dec
9410, 65039
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x000024C2 0x0000FE0F
UTF-32 Hex
24C2, FE0F
UTF-32 Dec
9410, 65039
Python Src
u"\u24C2\uFE0F"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x93\x82\xef\xb8\x8f"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u24C2\uFE0F"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
