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Chess symbols in Unicode

January 06, 2023

For the Unicode block with heterodox chess symbols, see Chess Symbols.

Chess symbols are part of Unicode. Instead of using images, one can represent chess pieces by symbols that are defined in the Unicode character set. This makes it possible to:

Font depictions of Unicode chess symbols (in the same order as the table). 1st: DejaVu Sans; 2nd: FreeSerif; 3rd: Quivira; 4th: Pecita.
GNU Chess using Unicode chess characters to display a chess board in the terminal.

In order to display or print these symbols, a device must have one or more fonts with good Unicode support installed, and the document (Web page, word processor document, etc.) it is displaying must use one of these fonts.[1]

Unicode version 12.0 has allocated a whole character block at 0x1FA00 for inclusion of extra chess piece representations. This standard points to several new characters being created in this block,[2] including rotated pieces and neutral (neither white nor black) pieces.

Unicode characters

In Unicode, chess symbols are in two groups:

The basic 12 chess pieces

Chess Symbols
Unicode.org chart (PDF)
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 ♟ ♟

Fairy chess pieces

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 15.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Chessboard using Unicode

8 ♜ ♞ ♝ ♛ ♚ ♝ ♞ ♜
7 ♟︎ ♟︎ ♟︎ ♟︎ ♟︎ ♟︎ ♟︎ ♟︎
6
5
4
3
2 ♙ ♙ ♙ ♙ ♙ ♙ ♙ ♙
1 ♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
a b c d e f g h

References

  1. ^ "Test for Unicode support in Web browsers".
  2. ^ http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1FA00.pdf[bare URL PDF]

January 06, 2023
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