What ⛨ means
On Japanese maps, ⛨ marks a hospital.
The earlier Japanese hospital sign was a flat badge with a red line in provisional maps published from 1884, probably modeled on Hakuaisha’s mark. In 1887, Hakuaisha became the Japanese Red Cross Society and adopted its emblem; maps used an outlined white cross in 1891. The black cross on a badge appeared in 1895, based on an old Army medical corps insignia. Japan’s broadcast text standard, ARIB STD B24, later included the map sign.
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Combination ideas
3Hospital, ambulance on the way
Off to the clinic
Hospital this way
Questions people ask
1Is ⛨ the Red Cross?
No. ⛨ is a Japanese hospital map sign; the Red Cross is a separate red-cross-on-white humanitarian emblem.
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How to type or find ⛨
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- Japanese hospital map sign · hospital symbol · ARIB STD B24
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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⛨CSS
\26E8Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⛨
HTML hex
⛨
CSS content
content: "\26E8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9B%A8
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.