What 🩨 means
The glyph marks the black side’s palace defender.
Xiangqi’s earliest clear written reference is placed in the late eighth century. By the Southern Song period, the game had the recognizable form played today. The advisor’s role belongs to that older game; 🩨 is its later notation character for the black side.
Advisor, guard, or mandarin?
“Advisor” best captures its game role.
The Chinese board label is 士, a character associated with scholars and officials. English translations were still varied in 1892, using labels such as “mandarin,” “counsellor,” and “assistant.” Those are translation choices for one piece; in a game record, “advisor” or “guard” makes its palace-bound defense clearest.
Game notation: precise for xiangqi play, opaque without the board’s piece names.
A font without support may show a blank; another font may draw it differently. The character itself is unchanged.
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsThe black side’s palace-bound defensive advisor.
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3Questions 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 🩨
- Also called
- black guard · black mandarin
- Search it as
- xiangqi · Chinese chess · black advisor · mandarin · shi
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🩨\1FA68Codes and encoding1 code points
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