How to type White Chess Rook
To type White Chess Rook (♖), press Alt + 9814 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+2656 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2656 on Linux, or 2656 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
White Chess Rook
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+2656
- Windows
- Alt + 9814 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 9814 | 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+2656 | WHITE 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 White 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 White Chess Rook
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2656 |
| Decimal | 9814 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 99 96 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26 56 |
| HTML entity | ♖ |
| HTML numeric | ♖ or ♖ |
| CSS | \2656 |
| JavaScript | \u2656 |
| Python | \u2656 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%99%96 |
| SVG | 2656.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ♖ arrives as â™–
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 99 96 are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.