What 🈟 means
It means the program is a newly starting series.
Japanese TV listings often put small boxed kanji beside a title to say what kind of airing it is. 🈟 marks a new series (新番組, shinbangumi), a first release or debut showing, the last episode and a rerun. The box tells you it is a label, not part of the show's name. These marks entered Unicode from Japan's digital broadcasting standard ARIB STD-B24, first issued in 1999.
The mark is a schedule label, not a promise. It says the series is new on that channel's lineup; it does not tell you whether the show aired elsewhere first.
Neutral and informational: a schedule label, not an emotion or a reaction.
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3Questions people ask
3Is 🈟 an emoji?
No. It is a text symbol drawn by your font, so its look depends on your device. The “new” emoji is .
Why did 🈟 turn into 新 when I pasted it?
Some software normalizes text, simplifying special forms to basic ones, and the Unicode compatibility rules map 🈟 to plain 新, dropping the square. This varies by app.
Does it mean the show is new in the whole world?
No. It only marks a new series on that Japanese channel's schedule.
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新CJK Unified Ideograph-65B0
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🈠Squared CJK Unified Ideograph-521D
ᄀHangul Choseong Kiyeok
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ᄄHangul Choseong SsangtikeutHow to type or find 🈟
- Also called
- boxed 新 · square shin
- Search it as
- squared 新 · boxed new kanji · 新 in a box · new program mark · Japanese TV guide symbol · new series symbol · shin kanji square
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🈟\1F21FCodes and encoding1 code points
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