What 🉈 means
It comes from Japanese broadcast character sets. ARIB, the association for Japan’s radio and broadcasting industries, established the STD-B24 digital-broadcast data standard in 1999. A 2008 Unicode proposal lists bracketed 敗 as an existing Japanese broadcast symbol; Unicode later kept the shell form as a compatibility character.
Don't confuse it with
1〔敗〕 Three separate characters: brackets around 敗. Unicode normalization can turn the single 🉈 into this sequence.
Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Baseball: pitcher charged with the loss.
Lost the game, feeling down.
Win–loss record.
Questions people ask
1Why can 🉈 turn into 〔敗〕?
It can: Unicode compatibility normalization, a text-cleanup rule, expands 🉈 to 〔敗〕. The meaning stays, but software receives three separate characters.
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- Search it as
- loss symbol · baseball loss · baseball scoring · broadcast symbol · 敗
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
🉈CSS
\1F248Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🉈
HTML hex
🉈
CSS content
content: "\1F248";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%89%88
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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.