What ⛁ means
A white piece that has been crowned king.
Each side starts with plain pieces, called men, that move diagonally forward. When a man reaches the opponent's back row it is crowned: a spare piece of the same colour goes on top, making the double-height stack this symbol draws.
A king can also move backward. In English draughts and American checkers it still steps one square at a time; in international draughts on the 1010 board and in many national versions it flies any distance along a diagonal. In much of Europe the crowned piece is called a "dame" or "queen" rather than a king.
Where will I actually see ⛁?
In diagrams, puzzles and text-drawn game boards.
It belongs to a set of four draughts symbols added together to Unicode: white man , white king ⛁, black man and black king . With them, people can set out a position in plain text, in a forum post, a puzzle or a simple program. It is a text symbol, not an emoji, so it takes the look of your font, and some phones and older systems show an empty box instead.
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3Worth knowing
- Draughts on a chessboard probably took shape in southern France or Spain in the late Middle Ages, growing out of alquerque, an older game that reached Spain from the Arab world.
Questions people ask
1Is ⛁ a chess piece?
No. It's a draughts (checkers) king. The white chess king is , a different character topped with a cross.
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How to type or find ⛁
- Also called
- white checkers king · crowned white checker
- Search it as
- checkers king · draughts king · white king checkers · crowned checker · checkers symbol · draughts symbol · U+26C1
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⛁\26C1Codes and encoding1 code points
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