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Button AB symbol

🆎 AB button (blood type)

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🆎 Emoji meaning

Universal receiver, rarity, uniqueness, diversity.

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🆎 Meaning

He needs an IV! In 1930, the Viennese physician Karl Landsteiner received the Nobel Prize for the uniform designation of the blood groups. Blood group AB is one of the rarest blood groups in the world.

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Commonly confused with

Color Variant

AB button (blood type)

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A button (blood type)

Squared A vs AB button; both blood-type-related icons, can be chosen interchangeably.

AB button (blood type)

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O button (blood type)

Squared O vs AB button; both blood-group icons, combinations can be confusing.

Same Shape

AB button (blood type)

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A button (blood type)

AB button vs A button; similar square letter-buttons used in medical or rating contexts.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “AB button (blood type)” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ blood + button + type

Keywords removed

- AB button (blood type) - blood type

In the release of Emoji 14.0 and Unicode 14.0 in 2021 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ AB

Keywords removed

- ab

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ AB button (blood type)

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there were 2 changes.

Emoji title renamed

Emoji title before

ab button

Emoji title after

AB button (blood type)

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ ab + blood type

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- ab

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