U+26C1 "⛁" White Draughts King Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⛁
U+26C1 "⛁" White Draughts King is a symbol representing a promoted piece in the game of draughts, also known as checkers, specifically the white king that has been crowned after reaching the opponent's back row. It is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block and is typically displayed as a single outlined or filled white crown or doubled checker piece, depending on the font. This character is used in digital contexts to denote a king piece in the game, distinguishing it from the standard white man or black pieces, and it is often employed in text-based game notation or on computer screens to represent the upgraded status and enhanced movement capabilities of the draughts king.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+26C1 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | White Draughts King |
| 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 0x9B 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x26C1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000026C1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u26c1 |
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 | Ideographic |
| 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 |