This code point first appeared in version 1.1 of the Unicode® Standard and belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block which goes from 0x2600 to 0x26FF.
You can safely add this character in your html code with the entity: ♖
You can use the u+2656 copy pc button below.
Easy u+2656 copy paste:
Unicode meta-data
The following table show specific meta-data that is known about this character.The u+2656 name is white chess rook emoji.
field | value |
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Codepoint (hex) | 2656, u2656 |
Character age | Unicode 1.1 |
Legacy name (Unicode 1.0) | - |
Official name (Unicode 15.0) | WHITE CHESS ROOK |
resolved name | white chess rook |
block | Miscellaneous Symbols (Misc_Symbols) |
common typos | u+6256, u+5266 |
There are alternative spelling that can be found in the wild for the unicode character 2656 like u 2656, (u+2656) or u +2656. You can also find u-2656, u*2656, un+2656, u2656, u=2656 or c+2656. You can also spell it with u 2656 unicode, u plus 2656, uncode 2656 or unicode + 2656.
Its bidirectional class is "ON":Other Neutrals (All other characters, including OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER)
Glyphs and symbols in your browser
The following unicode chart presents different versions of the glyph corresponding to the unicode characters u+2656 that are available on your computer.
In order to type this character easily, you may want to download and install a unicode Miscellaneous Symbols keyboard.
A sample of fonts are used below to display whether the character has a glyph in this font or not.
Encodings (Unicode characters converter)
The following character table converter for +u2656 allows you to see the value of the character in different encodings
encoding | hexadecimal | decimal | binary |
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UTF-8 | E2 99 96 | 14850454 | 11100010 10011001 10010110 |
UCS2 | 56 26 | 22054 | 01010110 00100110 |
UTF-16LE | 56 26 | 22054 | 01010110 00100110 |
UTF-16BE | 26 56 | 9814 | 00100110 01010110 |
UTF7 | 2B 4A 6C 59 2D | 185932208429 | 00101011 01001010 01101100 01011001 00101101 |
UTF7-IMAP | 26 4A 6C 59 2D | 164457371949 | 00100110 01001010 01101100 01011001 00101101 |