U+265E
Black Chess Knight
About
Black Chess Knight, a single Unicode character. Part of the Historic & Non-Standard group, symbol subgroup. Approved as part of Emoji 0.0.
Platform renderings
1 platform shown using your device's own emoji font. Their artwork is proprietary and this site does not redistribute it.
Timeline
2013 — 2026Showing 29 of 29 events through 2026
- 2013First render
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- 2014Redesign
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- 2016Redesign
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- 2016Redesign
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- 2016Redesign
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- 2017Redesign
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- 2017Redesign
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- 2018Redesign
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- 2018Redesign
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- 2018Redesign
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- 2019Redesign
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- 2019Redesign
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- 2020Redesign
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- 2020Redesign
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- 2020Redesign
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- 2021Redesign
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- 2021Redesign
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- 2022Redesign
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- 2022Redesign
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- 2023Redesign
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- 2024Redesign
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- 2024First render
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- 2025Redesign
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- 2025Redesign
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- 2026Redesign
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- 2026First render
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- 2026Redesign
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Encodings
- UTF-8
E2 99 9E- UTF-8 escaped
\xE2\x99\x9E- UTF-16
265E- UTF-32
0000265E- HTML decimal
♞- HTML hex
♞- CSS
\00265E- JavaScript
\u{265E}- JS surrogateFor pre-ES2015 targets
\u265E- Python
\u265E- URL encoded
%E2%99%9E- Base64
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Frequently asked questions
- What does ♞ mean?
- Black Chess Knight, a single Unicode character. Part of the Historic & Non-Standard group, symbol subgroup. Approved as part of Emoji 0.0.
- What is the Unicode code point for ♞?
- Black Chess Knight is encoded as the single code point U+265E.
- When was ♞ added to Unicode?
- ♞ was approved as part of Emoji 0.0 and released in 1993, under Unicode 1.1.
- Why does ♞ look different on my phone?
- Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point, so ♞ changes depending on where you see it. This page compares 29 renderings, including Samsung, OpenMoji and Catrinity.
- What category is ♞ in?
- ♞ belongs to Unicode's Historic & Non-Standard group, in the symbol subgroup.