U+265F "♟" Black Chess Pawn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
♟
U+265F "♟" Black Chess Pawn is a typographic symbol representing the smallest and most numerous piece in the game of chess, specifically the pawn for the black side. Part of the Unicode chess symbols block, it is often used in digital text to denote the black pawn in chess notation, game analysis, or visual representations of board positions, distinct from its white counterpart (U+2659). Its design typically mirrors a classic pawn shape with a rounded top and a short base, though exact appearance varies by font. This character serves both practical and decorative purposes in modern computing, allowing for easy inclusion of chess motifs without requiring specialized graphics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+265F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Black 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 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x265F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000265F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u265f |