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Black chess queen

U+265B · Miscellaneous Symbols

Meaning and uses

The black queen from chess. Its crown shape makes it one of the most used crown symbols in game names and bios, as in ♛ queen.

Unicode details

♛ is the Unicode character named BLACK CHESS QUEEN, code point U+265B, 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.

Unicode nameBLACK CHESS QUEEN
Code pointU+265B
BlockMiscellaneous Symbols
AddedUnicode 1.1 (1993)
UTF-8 bytesE2 99 9B
UTF-16265B
HTML♛

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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 265B 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 queen”.
  • On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 265b, then Space or Enter.
  • In HTML, use ♛. In a CSS content property, use "\265B".

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