U+1F239 Squared CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​5272

U+1F239 was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block U+1F200 para U+1F2FF Enclosed Ideographic Supplement in the U+10000 para U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Otro símbolo and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. El carácter es también conocido como discount sign.

The glyph is a square version of the glyph CJK Unified Ideograph-5272. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F239 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The CLDR project calls this character “ideograma japonés para "descuento"” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: descuento, ideograma, japonés, kanji.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 🈹︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.