Heavy Circled Saltire
Part of Geometric Shapes
Heavy Circled Saltire has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ⭙
- Unicode
- U+2B59
About this symbol
⭙, a circle with a cross, is the Japanese map symbol for a police station, its cross taken from the crossed batons of the police. A cross without the circle marks a koban, a small neighbourhood police box.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- HEAVY CIRCLED SALTIRE
- Also called
- Police station
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
- Unicode group
- Dictionary and map symbols from ARIB STD B24
- Added in
- Unicode 5.2 (2009)
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