Unicode Character "♖" U+2656 White Chess Rook
Unicode Version 15.1
♖
Summary
The unicode character "♖" at code point U+2656 is White Chess Rook. It is a character in the Miscellaneous Symbols block and is part of the Common script. The character is an other symbol. The UTF-8 encoding of "♖" is 0xE2 0x99 0x96 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x2656.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2656 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | White Chess Rook |
| 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 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2656 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002656 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2656 |