Black Chess Queen

U+265B

Black Chess Queen is the Unicode character ♛ at codepoint U+265B 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 Queen

To use the Black Chess Queen 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: '\265B';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u265B' evaluates to ♛. In Python source, write '\u265B'.

The character encodes to E2 99 9B as UTF-8 bytes and 265B as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9819.

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