U+26BE "⚾" Baseball Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⚾
U+26BE "⚾" Baseball is a single code point that represents a classic white baseball with two red curved seams, commonly known as a baseball. Introduced in Unicode version 5.1 in 2008 as part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block, it is used in digital text to signify the sport of baseball, games, bats, or balls, and appears in contexts ranging from sports scores and team communications to weather forecasts describing sunny activities. Though visually similar to a baseball, it is distinct from other ball emoji and serves as a straightforward ideographic symbol for the game.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+26BE |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Baseball |
| 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 0x9A 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x26BE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000026BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u26be |