Chess pawn
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- Shortcode
:chess_pawn:- Unicode
U+265F- HTML
♟- CSS
\265F- JavaScript
"\u{265F}"- URL
%E2%99%9F%EF%B8%8F
What ♟️ means
A black chess pawn. It means chess, and also being a pawn: a small player used by someone else.
Chess players use it for games and puzzles. "I'm just a ♟️ here" means feeling used or powerless, and strategy talk uses it for long-term thinking.
Facts
Chess pawn ♟️ is an emoji in the activities category, under game. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :chess_pawn:. People also look for it with words like “chess”, “dupe”, “expendable”, or “pawn”.
Timeline
- 2018Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 11.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2018
2020
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2018
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.