Black Chess King
Black Chess King has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ♚
- Unicode
- U+265A
About this symbol
The black chess king is the filled version of ♔. Figurine notation in chess books uses these pictures in place of letters, which differ between languages, so a printed game can be read anywhere. In Unicode names, “black” means filled, which also matches the black pieces.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- BLACK CHESS KING
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Unicode group
- Chess symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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