How to type Black Chess Rook
To type Black Chess Rook (♜), press Alt + 9820 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+265C directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 265c on Linux, or 265c then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Black Chess Rook
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+265C
- Windows
- Alt + 9820 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 9820 | 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+265C | BLACK CHESS ROOK |
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 Rook 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 Rook
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+265C |
| Decimal | 9820 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 99 9C |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26 5C |
| HTML entity | ♜ |
| HTML numeric | ♜ or ♜ |
| CSS | \265C |
| JavaScript | \u265C |
| Python | \u265C |
| URL-encoded | %E2%99%9C |
| SVG | 265C.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ♜ arrives as ♜
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 99 9C are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.