Black Chess King

Group: Games & tiles

Keywords

games

About this character

Black Chess King belongs to the Games & tiles group and is encoded at U+265A. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+265A
Hex: 265A
Decimal: 9818
HTML: ♚
CSS: \265A
JavaScript: \u265A
Python: \u265A
UTF-8: E2 99 9A

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Mahjong Tile East Wind U+1F000
Mahjong Tile South Wind U+1F001
Mahjong Tile West Wind U+1F002
Mahjong Tile North Wind U+1F003
Mahjong Tile Red Dragon U+1F004
Mahjong Tile Green Dragon U+1F005
Mahjong Tile White Dragon U+1F006
Mahjong Tile One Of Characters U+1F007
Mahjong Tile Two Of Characters U+1F008
Mahjong Tile Three Of Characters U+1F009
Mahjong Tile Four Of Characters U+1F00A
Mahjong Tile Five Of Characters U+1F00B
Mahjong Tile Six Of Characters U+1F00C
Mahjong Tile Seven Of Characters U+1F00D
Mahjong Tile Eight Of Characters U+1F00E
Mahjong Tile Nine Of Characters U+1F00F
Mahjong Tile One Of Bamboos U+1F010
Mahjong Tile Two Of Bamboos U+1F011
Mahjong Tile Three Of Bamboos U+1F012
Mahjong Tile Four Of Bamboos U+1F013
Mahjong Tile Five Of Bamboos U+1F014
Mahjong Tile Six Of Bamboos U+1F015
Mahjong Tile Seven Of Bamboos U+1F016
Mahjong Tile Eight Of Bamboos U+1F017

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.