U+2655 "♕" White Chess Queen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
♕
U+2655 "♕" White Chess Queen is a graphical symbol representing the queen piece from the game of chess, depicted in a solid, white outline style. It is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block, specifically within the chess symbols subset that includes all six standard chess pieces for both white and black sides. In textual contexts, this character is used to denote the white queen in chess notation, game analysis, or decorative typography, and its design typically follows a tall, crowned silhouette with a notched top. Being a text-based character, it can be displayed in any font that supports Unicode, distinguishing it from image-based icons.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2655 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | White Chess Queen |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ♕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ♕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x99 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2655 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002655 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2655 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |