About Black Chess King
Black Chess King is the Unicode character ♚ at codepoint U+265A in the Miscellaneous Symbols block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Developer Notes
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How to Use Black Chess King
To use the Black Chess King symbol (♚) in HTML, insert the
entity ♚ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ♚ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\265A';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u265A' evaluates to ♚. In Python source, write '\u265A'.
The character encodes to E2 99 9A as UTF-8 bytes and 265A as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9818.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.