Technical information

Symbol
NameBlack chess pawn
Unicode numberU+265F
CategoryChess
DescriptionThe Unicode character ♟, or U+265F, is known as the "Black Chess Pawn". It belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of a pawn from the game of chess, which is the most numerous piece in the game and also the weakest. It can be used in digital communications to represent the game of chess or metaphorically to indicate a pawn or a minor player in a situation. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity♟
HTML Entity (hex)♟
URL Escape Code%E2%99%9F
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x99 0x9F
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011001:10011111
UTF-160x265F
UTF-320x0000265F

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u265F"
CSS Code\265F
JavaScript"\u265F"
Perl\x{265F}
Python 2u"\u265F"
Python 3\u265F
Ruby\u{265F}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ♟ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
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36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9823;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\265F";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References