U+267B BLACK UNIVERSAL RECYCLING SYMBOL
U+267B was added to Unicode in version 3.2 (2002). It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+267B behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “recycling symbol” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: recycle, recycling symbol.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: ♻️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The universal recycling symbol (U+2672 ♲ UNIVERSAL RECYCLING SYMBOL or U+267B ♻ BLACK UNIVERSAL RECYCLING SYMBOL in Unicode) is internationally recognized for symbol for recycling activity. The symbol's creation originates on the first Earth Day in 1970, where the logo depicted is a Möbius strip. The public domain status of the symbol has been challenged before, but attempts have been unsuccessful. Many variations on the logo had been created since its creation.
Representations
| System | Representation |
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| Nº | 9851 |
| UTF-8 | E2 99 BB |
| UTF-16 | 26 7B |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 26 7B |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%99%BB |
| HTML-Escape | ♻ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â» |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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