♟Chess Pawn Emoji
Generally, it means someone is suggesting a strategic approach or playing a game of wits. It's often used to highlight a calculated move or a thoughtful plan.
The ♟ emoji is a chess pawn.
- Unicode
- U+265F
- Released
- 2018
- Shortcode
- :chess_pawn:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ♟ Chess Pawn emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as pawn emoji, chess emoji.
Chess Pawn emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the chess pawn has been drawn in 3 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Chess Pawn emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :chess_pawn:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the chess pawn, code point U+265F.
How to type the ♟ Chess Pawn emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+265F when there is no key at all.
Chess Pawn emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 8. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Chess Pawn emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around chess pawn for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with ♟, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What ♟ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What ♟ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the chess pawn lands changes how it is taken.
Where the ♟ Chess Pawn emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+265F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Chess Pawn was approved as U+265F and shipped in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so ♟ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.