What ⛀ means
It marks a round playing piece in draughts. Alone, it can stand for the game; a row can sketch a board position.
Origins are disputed. One account names Alquerque, a grid game of captures, as a likely ancestor and places draughts on an 88 chessboard in the 12th century. By the 1600s, checkers had a strategy book in print. Pieces have been made from stone, corncob, wood and plastic.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3White against black: a game of checkers
A man reaches the far row and is crowned
A checkerboard-style border
Questions people ask
1Can ⛀ vary by font or board square?
Yes. Fonts change its outline and shading; supported variation selectors can request a light- or dark-square form.
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How to type or find ⛀
- Search it as
- checkers · draughts · checker symbol · draughts piece · board position
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⛀CSS
\26C0Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⛀
HTML hex
⛀
CSS content
content: "\26C0";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9B%80
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.