Black Chess Pawn

U+265F

Black Chess Pawn is the Unicode character ♟ at codepoint U+265F 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 Pawn

To use the Black Chess Pawn 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: '\265F';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u265F' evaluates to ♟. In Python source, write '\u265F'.

The character encodes to E2 99 9F as UTF-8 bytes and 265F as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9823.

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.

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Last updated on 5 May 2026