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squared cjk unified ideograph-6295

Squared 投

🈧 is the Japanese character 投 ("throw") in a square, and it means pitcher. It comes from the symbols Japanese digital TV uses on screen, such as baseball graphics that mark who is pitching. It is a text symbol, not an emoji, and a device with no font that covers it shows an empty box.

Text symbol

What 🈧 means

It is screen shorthand for 投手, the pitcher.

Baseball is one of Japan's most popular sports, and Japanese names for positions are written with kanji (Chinese-derived characters): 投手 for pitcher, 捕手 for catcher, 打者 for batter. On screen, a single character in a box does the job. Japan's digital-broadcasting standard, ARIB STD-B24 (1999), included a set of such boxed labels, and Unicode added them in 2009 so they had standard codes instead of private, maker-specific ones.

If you meet 🈧 outside a broadcast, in a message or a symbol list, read it the same way: pitcher.

Part of the collection

🅰

Square Letters & Symbols (Box Letters)

Don't confuse it with

投

CJK Unified Ideograph-6295

The ordinary kanji, meaning "throw" in Japanese and Chinese. Type this one in normal text; 🈧 is a separate boxed label.

Combination ideas

Pitcher

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Pitcher versus batter

Questions people ask

Why do I see an empty box instead of 🈧?

Your device has no font that includes it. It is a specialised text symbol, not an emoji; it is usually drawn by fonts made for Japanese, Chinese and Korean text.

Can 🈧 turn into plain 投?

Yes. Unicode's compatibility normalization (NFKC) replaces 🈧 with plain 投 and drops the box. Software that applies it will treat them as the same; whether a given search does depends on the service.

How to type or find 🈧

Also called: boxed 投 · pitcher symbol
Search it as: 投 · pitcher · baseball · Japanese TV symbol · 投手
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType 1F227, then AltX 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 “squared cjk unified ideograph-6295”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1f227, then Enter or Space.

HTML

🈧

CSS

\1F227

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

🈧

HTML hex

🈧

CSS content

content: "\1F227";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9F%88%A7

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

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