Black Shogi Piece
Black Shogi Piece 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+2617
About this symbol
Shogi pieces, like ☗, are flat five-sided tiles of one colour; the way a piece points shows which player it belongs to. In shogi a captured piece changes sides and can be dropped back onto the board by the player who took it.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- BLACK SHOGI PIECE
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Unicode group
- Japanese chess symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 3.2 (2002)
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