U+2657 "♗" White Chess Bishop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2657 "♗" White Chess Bishop is a graphical symbol found in the Miscellaneous Symbols block, specifically designed to represent the chess piece of a white bishop in digital text and fonts. It is typically depicted as a tall, rounded figure resembling a mitre cap with a small cross or cleft at the top, symbolizing the bishop's religious or administrative origin in the traditional Staunton chess set. This character is part of a complementary set that includes its black counterpart at U+265D, allowing for straightforward use in electronic chess notation, software, or any plain text environment where a cursor-based or icon-driven representation of the game piece is needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2657 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | White Chess Bishop |
| 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 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2657 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002657 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2657 |
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 |