U+265B "♛" Black Chess Queen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
♛
U+265B "♛" Black Chess Queen is a typographic symbol representing the most powerful piece in a standard chess set, typically depicted as a distinctive crown or coronet with a rounded base. It is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block in Unicode, encoded for use in digital text to represent the black queen in chess notation, diagrams, and software. This character visually mirrors its white counterpart, U+2655, but with a filled or darkened style to indicate the black side, enabling clear distinction in digital chess games and online communications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+265B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Black 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 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x265B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000265B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u265b |
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 |