What ⛉ means
It marks a piece facing the other player.
Shogi is a Japanese board game; each side's pieces face the opponent, so diagrams use orientation rather than paint color to show the side.
Shogi reached its modern form over time
Shogi is thought to draw on chaturanga, an ancient Indian board game. Shogi's model reached Japan from China during the Nara and Heian periods, though its exact route is unclear. The oldest Japanese pieces were found with a wooden tablet dated 1058; today's small-board form took shape in the 16th century.
Related characters
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White Shogi Piece
The difference between ☖ and ⛉ is orientation: ☖ is upright; ⛉ is its turned diagram counterpart.
Black Shogi Piece
The upright black shogi marker; a 2018 Unicode proposal pairs it with ⛉ as a fixed reference beside a board.
Turned Black Shogi Piece
The turned black counterpart to ⛉.
Questions people ask
1Why 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.
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How to type or find ⛉
- Search it as
- shogi symbol · shogi notation · shogi diagram
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⛉CSS
\26C9Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⛉
HTML hex
⛉
CSS content
content: "\26C9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9B%89
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.