Service Mark ℠
Symbol Meaning
The combination of two SM letters is commonly used worldwide for indicating a registered trademark. The abbreviation comes from the expression “service mark” which literally means a brand name or logo that identifies the provider of a service. In other countries there are other trademark symbols used in this context:
or
.
In addition, the Service Trademark Unicode symbol comes in handy as a slang abbreviation for “so much”. You can use it when chatting or texting. For example, I love you ℠ .
The symbol “Service Mark” is included in the “Letterlike symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Service Mark |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Letterlike symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2120 |
| Simple case change | 2120 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 84 A0 | 226 132 160 | 14845088 | 11100010 10000100 10100000 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 20 | 33 32 | 8480 | 00100001 00100000 |
| UTF-16LE | 20 21 | 32 33 | 8225 | 00100000 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 20 | 0 0 33 32 | 8480 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 00100000 |
| UTF-32LE | 20 21 00 00 | 32 33 0 0 | 539033600 | 00100000 00100001 00000000 00000000 |