U+2658 "♘" White Chess Knight Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2658 "♘" White Chess Knight is a typographic symbol representing the knight piece from the game of chess, depicted in white and typically colored black on white backgrounds or white on black backgrounds in digital text. It is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block of the Unicode standard, specifically within the chess symbols range, and is often used in digital chess notation, diagrams, or text-based discussions of chess moves to indicate the white knight without requiring graphical images. The character's shape evokes the traditional horse's head that distinguishes the knight in physical chess sets, making it a compact and universally recognized representation for players, programmers, and enthusiasts alike.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2658 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | White Chess Knight |
| 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 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2658 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002658 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2658 |
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 |