Japanese symbol for beginner

A green and yellow chevron, the shoshinsha mark. In Japan new drivers must display it on their cars, and it stands for being a beginner.

People use 🔰 to say they are new at something: a first game, a first job, a first try at a recipe. Gamers and hobby groups use it for newcomers, and it softens a question with 'go easy, I'm new'.

It is also called the wakaba, or young-leaf, mark. Outside Japan many people read it as a shield.

Facts

Japanese symbol for beginner 🔰 is an emoji in the symbols category, under other symbol. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :beginner: or :japanese_symbol_for_beginner:. People also look for it with words like “Japanese”, “beginner”, “chevron”, or “green”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

symbols · Unicode 6.0