U+26C3 "⛃" Black Draughts King Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⛃
U+26C3 "⛃" Black Draughts King is a typographic symbol used to represent a king piece in the game of draughts, also known as checkers, specifically the black or dark-colored crowned piece that has been promoted to a king after reaching the opponent's back row. It is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode block and is rendered as a distinct glyph with a solid black circle or double-stacked shape, often resembling a crowned checker piece, to differentiate it from the standard black draughts man. This character is used in digital text, game notation, and board game representations where visual clarity for game states is required, and it pairs with its white counterpart, U+26C0, to denote opposing crowned pieces.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+26C3 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Black 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 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x26C3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000026C3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u26c3 |
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 |