Black Chess Knight is the Unicode character ♞ at codepoint U+265E in the Miscellaneous Symbols block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Black Chess Knight
To use the Black Chess Knight 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: '\265E';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u265E' evaluates to ♞. In Python source, write '\u265E'.
The character encodes to E2 99 9E as UTF-8 bytes and 265E as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9822.
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.