U+265C "♜" Black Chess Rook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
♜
U+265C "♜" Black Chess Rook is a typographic symbol representing the black rook chess piece, traditionally depicted as a small castle or tower, and is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block in the Unicode standard, specifically designed for use in digital chess notations and text-based chessboards. It complements the white rook (U+2656) and is encoded as a single character, allowing it to be displayed consistently across different systems and fonts. Originating from medieval chess traditions, the rook symbolizes power and mobility in the game, capable of moving any number of squares along a rank or file, and its inclusion in Unicode facilitates clear communication of game states in electronic media.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+265C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Black 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 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x265C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000265C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u265c |
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 |