What 🙿 means
Its documented role is font compatibility.
Unicode includes it for compatibility with Wingdings, Wingdings 2, and a few Webdings forms. These symbol fonts contained small decorative marks. A sender may give 🙿 a personal meaning; context settles that.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
1Related characters
2
Combination ideas
3A checkered border decoration
Game night: chess or checkers
A checkered finish-line or racing theme
Questions people ask
1Why does reverse checker board look different in a terminal?
Font fallback and terminal fitting can render 🙿 narrow or two cells wide. Ghostty users reported both in 2025; the width difference is a display effect.
More like this
12
Collections with 🙿
2
How to type or find 🙿
- Search it as
- reverse checkerboard · checkerboard symbol · checkerboard meaning · checkerboard dingbat · Wingdings checkerboard
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
🙿CSS
\1F67FCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🙿
HTML hex
🙿
CSS content
content: "\1F67F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%99%BF
1
On screen
1
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.