U+26C2 "⛂" Black Draughts Man Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⛂
U+26C2 "⛂" Black Draughts Man is a typographic symbol representing one of the playing pieces used in the board game of draughts, known as checkers in North America. This specific glyph depicts a dark or black circular token, used for marking the positions of pieces on the board during gameplay. It is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block of Unicode, which includes a variety of game-related and other icons, and serves the practical purpose of enabling digital representation of draughts games in text based computing environments. The character is distinct from the more generic black circle or other similar symbols, carrying the specific cultural and game context of a standard draughts piece.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+26C2 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Black Draughts Man |
| 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 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x26C2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000026C2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u26c2 |
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 |