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Ah, but what does 🈚️ mean? :)

WhatMoji doesn't recognize it; Emojipedia doesn't either; and Google returns zero results. Some of the original imported Softbank characters are arcane. These are the ones I want to look up—not because the meaning is vaguely between two possible semantic clusters, but because I literally have no idea how to even describe the character to search for it.



Maybe that's just a Chinese character? It looks like the character for "nothing" (無) enclosed in a box.

Part of the problem is that the character you pasted is made up of two code points (I don't know if I have the terminology right here):

http://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect?s=%F0%9F%88%9A%...

It's both the character plus a "variation selector".:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_Selectors_(Unicode_b...

If you search for the character by itself ( 🈚 ) you get results on google:

https://www.google.com/search?q=🈚




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