♟

Technical information

Symbol♟
NameBlack chess pawn
Unicode numberU+265F
CategoryChess
DescriptionThe Unicode character ♟, or U+265F, is known as the "Black Chess Pawn". It belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of a pawn from the game of chess, which is the most numerous piece in the game and also the weakest. It can be used in digital communications to represent the game of chess or metaphorically to indicate a pawn or a minor player in a situation. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity♟
HTML Entity (hex)♟
URL Escape Code%E2%99%9F
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x99 0x9F
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011001:10011111
UTF-160x265F
UTF-320x0000265F

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u265F"
CSS Code\265F
JavaScript"\u265F"
Perl\x{265F}
Python 2u"\u265F"
Python 3\u265F
Ruby\u{265F}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ♟ in sentence and in bold like this ♟ and in italic like this ♟.

Font size:

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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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100
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300
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400
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500
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600
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700
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800
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900

HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9823;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\265F";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana

References