What ☗ means
It marks a move by sente. In Japanese notation, marks gote, the opponent. English sources call them Black and White, but physical pieces point toward their owner.
Shogi’s familiar five-sided pieces appear on a wooden tablet dated around 1058; that dates the playing form, not this text marker.
What does ☗ mean in a message?
It usually signals shogi notation.
As of 2026, ☗ has no established general chat meaning; alone, it needs context.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Sente moves a pawn to square 7–6 in Japanese notation.
Sente's silver general, a shogi piece, retreats to 8–3 and promotes.
Classic shogi opening: both sides open their bishop diagonals.
Questions people ask
1Why does ☗ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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Collections with ☗
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How to type or find ☗
- Search it as
- shogi · sente · gote · shogi notation · shogi move
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
☗
HTML hex
☗
CSS content
content: "\2617";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%98%97
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On screen
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Code points
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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.