How to type Black Chess Bishop
To type Black Chess Bishop (♝), press Alt + 9821 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ♝ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+265D directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 265d on Linux, or 265d then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Black Chess Bishop
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+265D
- Windows
- Alt + 9821 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 9821 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ♝ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+265D | BLACK CHESS BISHOP |
Other symbols
♝ lives in the Miscellaneous Symbols block (U+2600-U+26FF), weather, astrology, religion, games and a wide miscellany. Within Unicode it is classified as So, a symbol.
How Black Chess Bishop behaves in software
♝ takes one column in a terminal. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one.
Every way to write Black Chess Bishop
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+265D |
| Decimal | 9821 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 99 9D |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26 5D |
| HTML entity | ♝ |
| HTML numeric | ♝ or ♝ |
| CSS | \265D |
| JavaScript | \u265D |
| Python | \u265D |
| URL-encoded | %E2%99%9D |
| SVG | 265D.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ♝ arrives as â™�
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 99 9D are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.