♛

Black Chess Queen

Unicode
U+265B
HTML Entity
♛
CSS
\265B
The ♛ symbol represents the Black Queen in the classic game of chess, characterized by its distinctive five-pointed coronet. Introduced to Unicode's Miscellaneous Symbols block, it allows developers and typographers to digitally render chess boards and algebraic notation using standard text instead of images. On social media, users frequently repurpose the symbol to represent royalty, female empowerment, or absolute dominance in a particular field.

How to Type

Windows
Alt+9819
macOS
Control+Command+Space then search "black chess queen"
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+U then 265B
HTML
♛ or ♛

In Programming

In software development, this symbol is frequently used to render text-based chess boards in terminal applications or to visualize solutions for the classic "Eight Queens" algorithmic puzzle.

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Tags

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