U+2617 "☗" Black Shogi Piece Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2617 "☗" Black Shogi Piece is a typographic symbol used to represent a black playing piece in Shogi, the Japanese variant of chess, where it appears alongside its counterpart, the White Shogi Piece U+2616. This glyph is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block and is specifically employed in diagrams, notations, or digital displays related to the game, depicting a stylized, five pointed shape that traditionally indicates the piece's orientation and ownership. Though less commonly used in everyday text, it serves as a concise visual reference in Shogi contexts, distinguishing black's pieces from white's in a manner similar to chess symbols in Unicode.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2617 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Black 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 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2617 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002617 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2617 |