♙

White Chess Pawn

Unicode
U+2659
HTML Entity
♙
CSS
\2659
The ♙ symbol represents the White Chess Pawn, the most numerous and fundamentally strategic piece in the classic board game of chess. Added to the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block, it is widely used in digital chess notation, game tutorials, and online strategy forums. People also use it metaphorically on social media to express feeling like a small part of a larger system or being a "pawn" in someone else's game.

How to Type

Windows
Alt+9817
macOS
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Linux
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HTML
♙

In Programming

Frequently used as a visual character in command-line interface (CLI) chess applications and text-based game engines to render the board state.

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Related Symbols

♔ White Chess King ♕ White Chess Queen ♖ White Chess Rook ♗ White Chess Bishop ♘ White Chess Knight ♚ Black Chess King ♛ Black Chess Queen ♜ Black Chess Rook ♝ Black Chess Bishop ♞ Black Chess Knight ♟ Black Chess Pawn ♠ Black Spade