White Chess Pawn

A symbol from the Chess & Cards collection. Click the symbol or the button below to copy.

Symbol: ♙
Unicode: U+2659
HTML entity: ♙
Category: Chess & Cards

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About the white chess pawn symbol

Representing the weakest but most numerous piece on the board, the White Chess Pawn is an iconic glyph from the Miscellaneous Symbols block. While formally read as white chess pawn, it is often simply referred to as a pawn in English. This character follows the Common script and serves as a standard typographic representation for the lightest-colored infantry units in the game.

In modern writing, this symbol is primarily used in digital gaming contexts and instructional literature. It frequently appears in algebraic chess notation to track moves or illustrate board problems in blogs and social media posts. Outside of traditional gaming, it is occasionally employed in social media bios or profile names as a metaphor for status or strategy. Some developers also use the character in source code or text-based user interfaces to represent game states without requiring external graphic assets.

How to type White Chess Pawn

Native keyboard shortcuts for each operating system — derived from the codepoint, so the steps below are always accurate.

Windows

2 options

In Word / Outlook: type 2659 then press Alt + X.
Anywhere: press Win + . to open the emoji & symbol picker, then search.

macOS

2 options

Enable “Unicode Hex Input” in System Settings → Keyboard, then hold Option and type 2659.
Or: Control + Command + Space opens the Character Viewer — search by name.