What 🈩 means
Because in Japanese, first base is 一塁, literally “one base”. Japanese lineups often shorten each position to one character, such as 一 for first base, 二 for second and 捕 for catcher, so 一 beside a name marks the first baseman. Official scorebooks use position numbers instead, where first base is 3.
The boxed versions come from ARIB STD-B24, the character standard for Japanese digital television set by the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses, where they sit among symbols for broadcast text. Unicode took them over so broadcast text could be stored and exchanged without losing them.
In ordinary Japanese or Chinese writing, a boxed 一 is not a normal way to write the number one, so outside baseball it has no settled meaning of its own.
A neutral, technical broadcast mark; it carries no tone of its own.
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1Is 🈩 an emoji?
No. It is a text symbol, so its look depends on your font. Some boxed characters, such as , are emoji; this one is not.
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How to type or find 🈩
- Also called
- first base · boxed 一 · squared one
- Search it as
- 1b · boxed one · squared 一 · japanese baseball · baseball position · scoreboard
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🈩\1F229Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.