What 🈞 means
The programme is a repeat, not a new episode. Japanese TV guides squeeze information into tiny labels next to programme titles, and 再 is the one for reruns. Many listings show it as a plain 再 or [再]; 🈞 is the boxed version encoded as a character of its own. Its siblings and mark the first and the latter part of a programme.
These labels come from Japanese digital broadcasting: ARIB STD-B24, the technical standard for Japanese digital TV first issued in 1999, includes a set of symbols for on-screen text, where boxed 再 is character 9074. A 2008 proposal brought the set into Unicode, which added it in 2009, so the symbols got standard codes instead of makeshift private ones. Not every font draws it, so it may appear as an empty box.
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Don't confuse it with
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3Questions people ask
2Why did 🈞 turn into a plain 再?
Some apps apply a standard text conversion called NFKC normalization, which officially reduces 🈞 to plain 再 and drops the box.
Is 🈞 an emoji?
No. It is a text symbol drawn by your font, unlike neighbours such as or , which are emoji.
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How to type or find 🈞
- Also called
- square 再 · rerun mark · 再放送マーク
- Search it as
- rerun · rebroadcast · 再放送 · repeat · boxed 再 · square sai · Japanese TV symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🈞\1F21ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.