🅱️ Negative Squared Latin Capital Letter B
A symbol representing Blood Type B. Displayed as the letter B on a red background. Sometimes used online to replace the letter C at the start of words in reference to the Bloods street gang's practice of turning words like cool into bool. This has expanded in some instances to starting any word with the letter B, or more specifically, this emoji which makes it more 🅱️lear that a letter has been replaced.
🅱️ Negative Squared Latin Capital Letter B
Also known as: Blood Type B
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| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
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| Emojipedia | :b_button_blood_type_: | |
| GitHub | :b: |
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A symbol representing Blood Type B. B Button (blood Type) was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Negative Squared Latin http://emojipedia.org/negative-squared-latin-capital-letter-b/
- A classification of blood that is based on the presence or absence of antigens in the red blood cells of an individual. For the purposes of blood transfusion three antigens referred to as "A", "B" and "RhD" (out of a total of 29) are the most important. Based on their presence the human blood can be classified to A, AB, B, and O blood types which are further divided to Rh positive or negative.
- A blood type is a classification of blood based on the presence or absence of inherited antigenic substances on the surface of red blood cells.
- A blood type
- A classification of human blood according to substances on the surface of the erythrocytes (red blood cells). The two main blood group systems are AB0 and rhesus factor (Rh). (Source: Wikipedia)
- Human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens
- Classification of blood