What ⚅ means
It marks the face with six dots.
Each dot is a pip.
The other Unicode die-face symbols are ⚀–⚄.
How old are six-sided dice?
Near Eastern cube dice date to the third millennium BCE. During the Greco-Roman period, they became more common and gradually replaced throwing sticks and knucklebones in board games.
Two-sided chance pieces—marked objects for random outcomes—are attested in Indigenous North America around 12,000 years ago, a separate chance-game tradition.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions 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.
How to type ⚅
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2685, then Alt+X to get ⚅.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “die face-6”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2685, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⚅CSS
\2685Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⚅
HTML hex
⚅
CSS content
content: "\2685";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9A%85
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.