What ⬮ means
Treat it as a visual marker, not an established reply. As of 2026, it has no standard chat reading; context has to supply any local interpretation.
Its ARIB 9206 connection is historical: it is the entry from a Japanese television-symbol standard unified with ⬮. In 2008, a Unicode reviewer said the source drawing looked more like a square with semicircles above and below than an ellipse.
Why does ⬮ look different in some fonts?
Fonts supply its outline, so the shape can vary. As a text character, ⬮ is drawn by the active font; a fallback font may make it narrower or show a missing-glyph box if it has no drawing for it.
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Questions people ask
1Why does ⬮ show as a box?
The active font or its fallback may not contain this glyph. A font with a drawing for it can display the symbol.
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Collections with ⬮
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How to type or find ⬮
- Search it as
- vertical oval symbol · black oval symbol · bean-shaped symbol · ARIB 9206 · U+2B2E
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⬮\2B2ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.