Crown Symbols
Tap a crown to copy it. Unicode has only one true crown, the emoji, so most text crowns are chess pieces. Each shows its real name and code point.
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Chess crowns
Unicode has no plain-text crown, so these chess king and queen pieces do the job. They stay monochrome and follow your text colour.
The crown emoji
The only character actually named CROWN, always drawn in colour by the platform. The fleur-de-lis is the classic heraldic companion.
Royal ornaments
Pointed and cross-shaped ornaments that suggest a crown or a coat of arms without being one.
Ready-made crown frames
Multi-character strings. The label is a plain description, not a Unicode name. Replace the middle with your own name.
22 symbols on this page. Names are the official Unicode character names; "emoji" marks characters that often appear as colour pictures on phones.
Why most text crowns are chess pieces
Unicode contains a lot of heraldry-adjacent shapes, but only one character whose name is CROWN: π, U+1F451, added as an emoji in 2010. It has no text form that follows your font, so wherever you paste it the platform draws its own coloured picture. If you want a crown in the same colour as the words around it, you need a stand-in.
The usual stand-ins are the chess pieces in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. β (white king) and β (white queen) are outlines; β (black king) and β (black queen) are solid. The queen is the better crown: its row of points matches the silhouette most people draw, while the king has a cross on top and reads as slightly more formal. Neither carries any meaning beyond the shape. A reader who plays chess may notice, but nobody else will.
Because these are ordinary text glyphs, they behave like letters. They resize with the font, take the text colour, and can be recoloured in CSS. They can also be split by a line break, so keep a crown attached to a name with a non-breaking space if the layout matters.
The heraldic family
The fleur-de-lis β (U+269C) is the French heraldic lily and is often put beside a crown to suggest royalty. It has an emoji form, so on phones it may turn gold. β is the Maltese cross, a heraldic and military ornament; it reads as an order or a badge rather than a crown, but it fits the same styles. The π° castle, π€΄ prince and πΈ princess are emoji and are included so the group is complete, not because they work as text.
Text presentation and emoji presentation
Two of the characters above can appear either as monochrome text or as colour emoji: β and the chess pawn β, which is not in this list because it is almost always shown as emoji. Unicode lets you request a form by following the character with an invisible variation selector. U+FE0E asks for text, and U+FE0F asks for emoji. Support is uneven, so treat the selector as a hint. If you need a guaranteed monochrome crown, use β or β, which have no emoji form for an app to substitute.
| Character | Code point | Reliable as text? | Typical result on phones |
|---|---|---|---|
| β | U+2655 | Yes | Black or grey glyph |
| β | U+265B | Yes | Black or grey glyph |
| β | U+269C | Sometimes | Often gold emoji |
| π | U+1F451 | No text form | Always colour emoji |
Crowns in gaming and social names
Crowns are one of the most popular decorations for gamer tags and display names, usually written as a pair around the name or as a prefix. The frames in the last group are strings made of several characters. Each label is a plain description, not a Unicode name, because a string like κ§βκ§ is three separate characters. The curly outer shapes are from the Javanese script block, and they were never intended as brackets, but they have been used that way for years.
Games and platforms set their own name rules, and many filter symbols outside basic Latin, so a crown that works in one game may vanish in another. We do not have a tested list for every title. Check the name field after saving, and see the text decorator if you want to wrap a name in several symbols at once. For platform specifics, our Instagram fonts page records what is documented for bios.
How to type a crown
- Word on Windows. Type 265B and press Alt then X to convert it to β. Use 2655 for β and 2654 for β.
- Windows emoji panel. Press the Windows key and the period key, then search crown for π.
- Mac. Open the Character Viewer with Control, Command and Space and search chess queen or crown.
- iPhone and Android. Search the emoji keyboard for crown. The chess pieces are usually on a symbols page of third-party keyboards.
- Text replacement. On iOS and macOS, set a shortcut such as βcrwnβ that expands to β.
The old Windows Alt codes cover card suits and arrows but not chess pieces, so there is no Alt code for any crown.
Accessibility
Screen readers read characters by name. β is announced as βblack chess queenβ and π as βcrownβ. A name framed with crowns on both sides produces two extra announcements around it, which can be tiresome to hear every time the name appears. Put one crown after the name, not before, so the name comes first, and avoid long rows. Do not use a crown in place of a word. The fancy text accessibility guide goes into the wider issue.
If you see a box
A crown shows as an empty box when the device has no font with that glyph. Chess pieces are widely covered, but very old systems and some embedded fonts lack them. The boxes guide explains what to try. The sibling pages for stars and sparkles cover the shapes people usually combine with crowns.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a crown symbol in Unicode that is not an emoji?
What is the difference between β and β?
Why does π look different on my phone and on Windows?
Can I use a crown in a game name?
How do I type a crown on a keyboard?
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