How to type Black Chess Pawn
To type Black Chess Pawn (♟), press Alt + 9823 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+265F directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 265f on Linux, or 265f then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Black Chess Pawn
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+265F
- Windows
- Alt + 9823 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 9823 | 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+265F | BLACK CHESS PAWN |
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.
What Black Chess Pawn is used for
Unicode publishes a second list of names for ♟ in CLDR, the keywords its own search data offers rather than the formal name, and they are dupe and expendable. Those words are what somebody looking for this character is liable to type when Black Chess Pawn is not the name they know it by, and the search on the symbol lists matches them as well as the Unicode name.
How Black Chess Pawn 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.
What people ask about Black Chess Pawn
What does mean in chess?
♟ is BLACK CHESS PAWN, encoded at U+265F.
Every way to write Black Chess Pawn
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+265F |
| Decimal | 9823 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 99 9F |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26 5F |
| HTML entity | ♟ |
| HTML numeric | ♟ or ♟ |
| CSS | \265F |
| JavaScript | \u265F |
| Python | \u265F |
| URL-encoded | %E2%99%9F |
| SVG | 265F.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ♟ arrives as ♟
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 99 9F are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.