U+2656— MISCELLANEOUS SYMBOLS CHARACTER U+2656
MISCELLANEOUS SYMBOLS CHARACTER U+2656 is a standardized character in the Miscellaneous Symbols block.
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MISCELLANEOUS SYMBOLS CHARACTER U+2656
U+2656 • Decimal 9814
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Instant Clipboard ExportCharacter Glyph (Raw)
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Unicode Codepoint (Hex)
U+2656
Decimal Integer
9814
HTML Entity (Decimal)
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HTML Entity (Hex)
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JavaScript ES6 / JSON
\u2656
Java / C# (Surrogates)
\u2656
Python 3
\u2656
C / C++ / Rust
\u2656
CSS Content
\002656
URL Percent-Encoded
%E2%99%96
Raw UTF-8 Bytes (Hex)
0xE2 0x99 0x96
Base64 Stream
4pmW
Unicode Character Database (UCD) Technical Specifications
Unicode 16.0 Standard| Unicode Plane | Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) • U+0000..U+FFFF |
| Unicode Block | Miscellaneous Symbols (U+2600..U+26FF) |
| General Category | Lo — Other Letter / Symbol |
| Bidirectional Class | L (Left-to-Right) • Flow: LTR |
| Unicode Version Introduced | Unicode 2.0 - 5.0 |
| UTF-8 Byte Stream | 0xE2 0x99 0x96 (3 Bytes) |
| UTF-16 Code Units | 0x2656 |
| UTF-32 Hexadecimal | 0x00002656 |
Quick Character Summary
Glyph♖
Hex CodepointU+2656
Decimal ID9814
ScriptCommon
DirectionLTR (L)
Introduced InUnicode 2.0 - 5.0
Device & Font Support
99.0% SupportApple (iOS / macOS)iOS 5.0+
Google (Android / Chrome)Android 4.0+
Microsoft (Windows)Windows 7+
Standard Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) character widely supported across all modern browsers.