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Chess symbols in Unicode

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For the Unicode block with heterodox chess symbols, see Chess Symbols.
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Font depictions of Unicode chess symbols (in the same order as the table): DejaVu Sans, FreeSerif, Quivira, Pecita.
A screenshot of the GNU Chess program in graphic mode showing the chessboard with Unicode characters.
GNU Chess using Unicode chess characters to display a chess board in the terminal.

Unicode has text representations of chess pieces. These allow to produce the symbols using plain text without the need of a graphics interface. It enables the use of figurine algebraic notation, which replaces the letter that stands for a piece by its symbol, e.g. ♘c6 instead of Nc6.

The standard set of chess pieces were included in the block Miscellaneous Symbols. In Unicode 12.0, the Chess Symbols block (U+1FA00–U+1FA6F) was allocated for inclusion of extra chess piece representations. This includes rotated pieces, neutral (neither white nor black) pieces, knighted pieces, equihoppers, and xiangqi pieces.[1] Shatranj pieces have been provisionally assigned for a future version.[2][3]

Unicode blocks

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Chess Symbols
Name Symbol Code point HTML (decimal) HTML (hex)
white chess king ♔ U+2654 ♔ ♔
white chess queen ♕ U+2655 ♕ ♕
white chess rook ♖ U+2656 ♖ ♖
white chess bishop ♗ U+2657 ♗ ♗
white chess knight ♘ U+2658 ♘ ♘
white chess pawn ♙ U+2659 ♙ ♙
black chess king ♚ U+265A ♚ ♚
black chess queen ♛ U+265B ♛ ♛
black chess rook ♜ U+265C ♜ ♜
black chess bishop ♝ U+265D ♝ ♝
black chess knight ♞ U+265E ♞ ♞
black chess pawn ♟︎ U+265F ♟ ♟
Chess Symbols[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1FA0x 🨀 🨁 🨂 🨃 🨄 🨅 🨆 🨇 🨈 🨉 🨊 🨋 🨌 🨍 🨎 🨏
U+1FA1x 🨐 🨑 🨒 🨓 🨔 🨕 🨖 🨗 🨘 🨙 🨚 🨛 🨜 🨝 🨞 🨟
U+1FA2x 🨠 🨡 🨢 🨣 🨤 🨥 🨦 🨧 🨨 🨩 🨪 🨫 🨬 🨭 🨮 🨯
U+1FA3x 🨰 🨱 🨲 🨳 🨴 🨵 🨶 🨷 🨸 🨹 🨺 🨻 🨼 🨽 🨾 🨿
U+1FA4x 🩀 🩁 🩂 🩃 🩄 🩅 🩆 🩇 🩈 🩉 🩊 🩋 🩌 🩍 🩎 🩏
U+1FA5x 🩐 🩑 🩒 🩓
U+1FA6x 🩠 🩡 🩢 🩣 🩤 🩥 🩦 🩧 🩨 🩩 🩪 🩫 🩬 🩭
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

References

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  1. ^ "Chess Symbols" (PDF). unicode.org. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  2. ^ Bala, Gavin Jared; Miller, Kirk (22 December 2023). "Unicode request for shatranj symbols" (PDF). unicode.org. Unicode. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  3. ^ Unicode. "Proposed New Characters: The Pipeline". unicode.org. The Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
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