What ⭖ means
It marks a prefecture's government office. In Japan, a prefecture is a regional administration; its map label is 都道府県庁.
An oval office mark appears in an 1884 provisional map specification; 1965 rules dropped it from 1:25,000 topographic maps. Unicode records its move from U+26E4 to U+2B56 in 2009.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Is ⭖ an emoji?
No. It is rendered as text, and the typeface determines its outline.
How to type ⭖
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2B56, 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 “heavy oval with oval inside”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2b56, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⭖CSS
\2B56Microsoft IME (Windows)
The 2023 guide: enter 2B56 in Japanese input mode, then press F5 for candidates.
Google Japanese Input
The 2023 guide enters U+2B56, then converts it.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⭖
HTML hex
⭖
CSS content
content: "\2B56";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%AD%96
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On screen
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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.