U+26DE "⛞" Falling Diagonal in White Circle in Black Square Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⛞
U+26DE "⛞" Falling Diagonal in White Circle in Black Square is a symbol included in the Miscellaneous Symbols block, primarily used in cartography and map legends to denote a landmark such as a quarry, mine, or other significant excavation site. Its design features a white circle containing a single diagonal line, all set within a solid black square, creating a high-contrast glyph meant to be easily identifiable on navigational charts. This character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2008 as part of version 5.2, drawing from symbol sets used in Japanese mapping systems, where it serves a specific functional purpose rather than a decorative or linguistic one.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+26DE |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Falling Diagonal in White Circle in Black Square |
| 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 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x26DE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000026DE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u26de |