U+2659 "♙" White Chess Pawn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
♙
U+2659 "♙" White Chess Pawn is a typographic symbol that represents the smallest and most numerous piece in the game of chess, typically depicted as a short, round-based figure with a small knob on top. In the standard chess hierarchy, it is valued at one point and moves forward one square (or two on its initial move) while capturing diagonally, and it holds the unique ability to be promoted to a queen, rook, bishop, or knight upon reaching the opponent's back rank. This character is part of the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block, originally included in version 1.1 of the Unicode Standard in 1993, and is commonly used in digital chess notation, diagram displays, and text-based chess puzzles to visually indicate a white pawn on the board.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2659 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | White Chess Pawn |
| 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 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2659 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002659 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2659 |
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 |