How to type White Chess King
To type White Chess King (♔), press Alt + 9812 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+2654 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2654 on Linux, or 2654 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
White Chess King
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+2654
- Windows
- Alt + 9812 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 9812 | 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+2654 | WHITE 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 White 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 White Chess King
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2654 |
| Decimal | 9812 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 99 94 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26 54 |
| HTML entity | ♔ |
| HTML numeric | ♔ or ♔ |
| CSS | \2654 |
| JavaScript | \u2654 |
| Python | \u2654 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%99%94 |
| SVG | 2654.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 94 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+2654, which for a character this far outside Latin-1 is common in older office fonts.