πΎ
|
|
|
Translingual
Alternative forms
Unicode gives two alternative forms:
Symbol
πΎ
- (chiefly British) Indicates public toilets.
- 1993, John E. Traister, Illustrated Dictionary for Building Construction, Fairmont Press, βISBN, Mechanical Graphic Symbols, page 372:
- WC Water Closet
- 2015 July 2, βA new symbol for the toiletβ, in BBC Newsβ:
- Here PC stands for "public convenience", according to maps created by Ordnance Survey (OS), the UK's official mapping agency. Not WC, meaning "water closet", widely in use in cafes, bars, restaurants and so on to denote a toilet.
Usage notes
- In the United Kingdom, where πΎ is predominantly used, it coexists with the more universally-recognisable π». Specifically on British informational road signage (as produced by the Department for Transport), πΎ is used in official capacity to indicate public toilets.[1]
- As an emoji, almost all operating systems display this symbol as a blue box. The unicode character itself and certain operating systems instead display this symbol as a flush toilet (π½) with the text βWCβ above it.[2][3] The character itself was released in Unicode 6.0 in October 2010.[4]
Hyponyms
See also
References
- Department for Transport (2018 January 17) βGuidance: Road traffic sign images for reproductionβ, in Government of the United Kingdomβ, retrieved 4 October 2023: β[πΎ on a British informational traffic sign].β
- βπΎ Water Closet Emojiβ, in Emojipediaβ, 2023 October 4 (last accessed), Emoji Designs
- βThe Unicode Standard, Version 15.0β, in The Unicode Standardβ, The Unicode Consortium, 2022, retrieved 4 October 2023, Transport and Map Symbols, page 3
- Version 6.0.0 (The Unicode Standard)β, Unicode Consortium, 2010 October 11, retrieved 4 October 2023
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.