How to type Black Chess Queen
To type Black Chess Queen (♛), press Alt + 9819 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+265B directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 265b on Linux, or 265b then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Black Chess Queen
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+265B
- Windows
- Alt + 9819 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 9819 | 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+265B | BLACK CHESS QUEEN |
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 Queen 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 Queen
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+265B |
| Decimal | 9819 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 99 9B |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26 5B |
| HTML entity | ♛ |
| HTML numeric | ♛ or ♛ |
| CSS | \265B |
| JavaScript | \u265B |
| Python | \u265B |
| URL-encoded | %E2%99%9B |
| SVG | 265B.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ♛ arrives as â™›
One character has become three, which is what a three-byte UTF-8 sequence looks like when each byte is read separately: E2 99 9B read as Windows-1252 gives exactly â™›. The text is intact and the damage is in the reading, so setting the reader to UTF-8 restores it and retyping does not. A rectangle instead of the mojibake means the opposite: the encoding is right and the font has no glyph at U+265B, which for a character this far outside Latin-1 is common in older office fonts.