What 🩩 means
It moves two board intersections diagonally, but cannot cross the river. It helps guard the general, alongside the other elephant.
Older records mention games called xiangqi, but historians debate whether they followed modern Xiangqi rules. A Unicode proposal groups Xiangqi and Korean Janggi symbols as related game traditions.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Xiangqi elephant beside the animal it is named after.
The elephant may never cross the river.
Xiangqi elephant and chess bishop, both diagonal movers.
Questions people ask
1Is 🩩 an emoji?
No. It is a text symbol for Xiangqi, and its appearance depends on the font.
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How to type or find 🩩
- Also called
- black elephant · hei xiang · 象
- Search it as
- xiangqi · chinese chess
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
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HTML
🩩CSS
\1FA69Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🩩
HTML hex
🩩
CSS content
content: "\1FA69";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A9%A9
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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.