U+2659 "♙" White Chess Pawn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+2659 "♙" White Chess Pawn is a typographic symbol that represents the smallest and most numerous piece in the game of chess, typically depicted as a short, round-based figure with a small knob on top. In the standard chess hierarchy, it is valued at one point and moves forward one square (or two on its initial move) while capturing diagonally, and it holds the unique ability to be promoted to a queen, rook, bishop, or knight upon reaching the opponent's back rank. This character is part of the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block, originally included in version 1.1 of the Unicode Standard in 1993, and is commonly used in digital chess notation, diagram displays, and text-based chess puzzles to visually indicate a white pawn on the board.
General Properties
Code Point
U+2659
Name
White Chess Pawn
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
♙
HTML Hex Encoding
♙
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x99 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2659
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002659
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2659
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common