U+26C9 "⛉" Turned White Shogi Piece Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⛉
U+26C9 "⛉" Turned White Shogi Piece is a symbol from the Shogi or Japanese chess icon set, representing a piece that has been promoted or turned over to reveal its white side. Unlike standard chess, Shogi pieces are double sided, with black characters on one side for unpromoted pieces and red or white characters on the reverse for promoted forms. This specific glyph depicts a generic piece after promotion, rotated 180 degrees to indicate its enhanced status. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows range of Unicode and is primarily used in digital contexts to represent the game of Shogi or its notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+26C9 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Turned 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 0x9B 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x26C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000026C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u26c9 |