Black chess knight

Meaning and uses

The black knight from chess, shaped like a horse's head. Chess players use it in notes, and it works as a horse symbol in names.

Unicode details

♞ is the Unicode character named BLACK CHESS KNIGHT, code point U+265E, in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It is not an emoji, so it keeps the colour and size of the text around it.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type ♞

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• In Microsoft Word on Windows, type 265E and then press Alt+X to turn the code into ♞.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “black chess knight”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 265e, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ♞. In a CSS content property, use "\265E".