Tortoise-shell-bracketed 盗

🉆 marks a stolen base in Japanese TV baseball notation. The kanji 盗 means “steal”; text normalization can expand the single symbol to 〔盗〕.

Text symbol

What 🉆 means

It labels a stolen base in Japanese broadcast baseball. Japanese kanji 盗 means “steal”; tortoise-shell brackets make it a compact event marker. ARIB STD-B24, Japan’s data standard for digital broadcasting, dates to 1999. A 2008 Unicode proposal lists the mark among Japanese TV symbols and argues that standard encoding would avoid conflicting custom font codes. Unicode encoded the mark in 2009.

Unicode’s compatibility form is 〔盗〕: opening bracket, 盗, closing bracket. Compatibility normalization, a text-standardization process, can expand the symbol into those three characters.

Don't confuse it with

〔盗〕 Unicode’s compatibility form is the three-character sequence 〔盗〕; normalization can replace the one-character symbol with it.

Combination ideas

Stolen base!

Sprinting to steal a base.

Swiped a base, feeling smooth.

Questions people ask

Why does 🉆 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.