How to type Black Chess King
To type Black Chess King (♚), press Alt + 9818 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+265A directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 265a on Linux, or 265a then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Black Chess King
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+265A
- Windows
- Alt + 9818 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 9818 | 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+265A | BLACK CHESS KING |
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 King 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 King
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+265A |
| Decimal | 9818 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 99 9A |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26 5A |
| HTML entity | ♚ |
| HTML numeric | ♚ or ♚ |
| CSS | \265A |
| JavaScript | \u265A |
| Python | \u265A |
| URL-encoded | %E2%99%9A |
| SVG | 265A.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ♚ arrives as ♚
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 99 9A are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.