U+1F242 TORTOISE SHELL BRACKETED CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E8C

The Unicode character U+1F242, officially named TORTOISE SHELL BRACKETED CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E8C, was introduced in Unicode version 5.2. It is part of the Enclosed Ideographic Sup block, which belongs to the Supplementary Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is a compatibility composition and has wide in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.