What is the difference between White Chess Bishop and White Chess Alfil?

White Chess Bishop is U+2657 in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. White Chess Alfil is U+1FA55 in the Chess Symbols block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for White Chess Bishop?

The HTML entity for White Chess Bishop (U+2657) is ♗.

What is the HTML entity for White Chess Alfil?

The HTML entity for White Chess Alfil (U+1FA55) is 🩕.

Are White Chess Bishop and White Chess Alfil the same Unicode character?

No. White Chess Bishop is U+2657 (decimal 9815) and White Chess Alfil is U+1FA55 (decimal 129621). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of White Chess Bishop and White Chess Alfil?

White Chess Bishop (U+2657) encodes as E2 99 97 in UTF-8. White Chess Alfil (U+1FA55) encodes as F0 9F A9 95 in UTF-8.

White Chess Bishop vs White Chess Alfil

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

♗

White Chess Bishop

U+2657

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White Chess Alfil

U+1FA55

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Property Comparison

Property	White Chess Bishop	White Chess Alfil
Codepoint	`U+2657`	`U+1FA55`
Decimal	`9815`	`129621`
HTML Entity	`♗`	`🩕`
HTML Decimal	`♗`	`🩕`
HTML Hex	`♗`	`🩕`
UTF-8	`E2 99 97`	`F0 9F A9 95`
UTF-16	`26 57`	`D8 3E DE 55`
UTF-32	`00002657`	`0001FA55`
CSS Escape	`\2657`	`\1FA55`
JS Escape	`\u2657`	`\uD83E\uDE55`
Python Escape	`\u2657`	`\U0001FA55`
URL Encoded	`%E2%99%97`	`%F0%9F%A9%95`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Other Symbol (So)`
Block	`Miscellaneous Symbols`	`Chess Symbols`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`17.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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