U+2616 "☖" White Shogi Piece Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
☖
U+2616 "☖" White Shogi Piece is a typographic symbol representing a white game piece used in the Japanese chess variant Shogi, where it is filled with white ink, often paired with its black counterpart U+2617 "☗", to visually denote the respective sides or moves in digital or textual representations of the game, distinct from standard chess due to Shogi’s unique rules such as piece promotion and drops.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2616 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | White Shogi Piece |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ☖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ☖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x98 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2616 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002616 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2616 |