Circled square

🟗 is a square inside a circle, used to represent a marked stone in diagrams of the board game Go. The square distinguishes another stone or group of the same colour from one marked with a triangle. It is a text symbol whose appearance comes from the font, rather than a colour emoji.

Text symbol

What 🟗 means

It identifies stones to compare or discuss. Go is a strategy game in which two players place black and white stones on a grid to surround territory. Diagrams show positions on the board; marks on the stones help an explanation point to particular stones or groups.

The circle represents a stone, and the square is an annotation on it. In the documented convention, a triangle identifies one stone or group under discussion, while a square identifies an additional one of the same colour. The square does not make it a different kind of playing piece.

Technical board-game notation: a marker for an explanation, rather than an emotional reaction.

Part of the collection

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Square & Rectangle Symbols

Don't confuse it with

⧇

Squared Small Circle

⧇ is a small circle inside a square. 🟗 is the reverse: a square inside a circle.

Combination ideas

Triangle and square markers, a matched pair of diagram labels.

Outlined and filled circled squares, a light and dark pair.

Worth knowing

A 2016 Unicode proposal documented this marking convention in English, Japanese and Chinese Go material, including online diagrams, and cited a book example from 1973.

Questions people ask

Why do I see an empty box instead?

Your font may lack this character. A missing-character box is a display fallback, not the circled square itself. A font that supports the character is needed to show its shape.