U+265B "♛" Black Chess Queen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+265B "♛" Black Chess Queen is a typographic symbol representing the most powerful piece in a standard chess set, typically depicted as a distinctive crown or coronet with a rounded base. It is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block in Unicode, encoded for use in digital text to represent the black queen in chess notation, diagrams, and software. This character visually mirrors its white counterpart, U+2655, but with a filled or darkened style to indicate the black side, enabling clear distinction in digital chess games and online communications.
General Properties
Code Point
U+265B
Name
Black Chess Queen
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
♛
HTML Hex Encoding
♛
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x99 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding
0x265B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000265B
C/C++/Java Escape
\u265b
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common