This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as silver medal.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F948 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character “2nd place medal” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: 2nd, medal, place, second, silver.
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.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A silver medal, in sports and other similar areas involving competition, is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receives a gold medal and the third place a bronze medal. More generally, silver is traditionally a metal sometimes used for all types of high-quality medals, including artistic ones.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
129352
UTF-8
F0 9F A5 88
UTF-16
D8 3E DD 48
UTF-32
00 01 F9 48
URL-Quoted
%F0%9F%A5%88
HTML hex reference
🥈
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
🥈
alias
silver medal
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
95 30 D2 36
RFC 5137
\u'1F948'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\U0001F948
C and C++
\U0001F948
C#
\U0001F948
CSS
\01F948
Excel
=UNICHAR(129352)
Go
\U0001F948
JavaScript
\uD83E\uDD48
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{1f948}
JSON
\uD83E\uDD48
Java
\uD83E\uDD48
Lua
\u{1F948}
Matlab
char(129352)
Perl
"\x{1F948}"
PHP
\u{1f948}
PostgreSQL
U&'\+01F948'
PowerShell
`u{1F948}
Python
\U0001F948
Ruby
\u{1f948}
Rust
\u{1f948}
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