What 🁞 means
It is the six-three piece in a domino set. Each half has dots (pips); in matching games, touching ends usually show the same value, though rules vary.
Domino-like Chinese tiles are documented by the 12th century. A 1893 account records dominoes used for Chinese divination—seeking guidance through signs—as well as play. European domino games and puzzles were established by the late 18th century.
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Related characters
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Domino Tile Horizontal-00-00
A blank tile from the same horizontal domino set; 🁞 has six dots on one half and three on the other.
Domino Tile Vertical-06-03
The same 6–3 tile drawn upright, with six pips above three.
Domino Tile Horizontal-03-06
The same tile turned end for end: three pips on the left, six on the right.
Domino Tile Vertical-03-06
The upright drawing of that reversed order, with three pips above six.
Domino Tile Horizontal-05-04
In Pai Gow, 6–3 and 5–4 are the two mixed nines (Chop Gow) and count as a pair.
Combination ideas
3We took the set 6–3.
Domino chain: 4–6 and 6–3 join at the sixes.
Domino chain: the threes meet at the double three.
Questions people ask
1Why do domino tile symbols look different across fonts?
They can. Horizontal and vertical tiles are encoded separately, and fonts choose whether tiles and pips are light or dark. The tile's values stay the same.
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How to type or find 🁞
- Also called
- 6-3 domino · six-three domino
- Search it as
- 6–3 domino · domino pips · domino tile symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
🁞CSS
\1F05ECodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🁞
HTML hex
🁞
CSS content
content: "\1F05E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%81%9E
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On screen
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Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.