Chess Symbols
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Chess Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for fairy chess and related notations beyond the basic Western chess symbols (U+2654 to U+265F) in the Miscellaneous Symbols block, as well as symbols representing game pieces for xiangqi (Chinese chess).
Block
| Chess Symbols[1][2] (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 17.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points |
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Chess Symbols block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11.0 | U+1FA60..1FA6D | 14 | Proposal for Encoding Chinese Chess Symbol in the SMP, 2010-09-16 | ||
| Re: Proposal for encoding Chinese chess symbols, 2010-11-05 | |||||
| Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "C.15", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes | |||||
| R.O. Korea's Comments on "Proposal for Encoding Chinese Chess Symbol in the SMP (WG2 N3910)", 2011-03-03 | |||||
| , ) | "M57.28 (Chinese Chess symbols)", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 | ||||
| "11.8 Comments on N3910 "Proposal for Encoding Chinese Chess Symbols"", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | |||||
| West, Andrew (2016-09-12), Proposal to encode Xiangqi game symbols | |||||
| Everson, Michael (2016-09-28), Recommendations for encoding Xiàngqí game symbols | |||||
| , ) | "10.3.10", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16 | ||||
| Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "Consensus 149-C8", UTC #149 Minutes | |||||
| Suignard, Michel (2017-05-08), "China T3, UK T7. Sub-clause 33", Draft disposition of comments on PDAM1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 5th edition | |||||
| Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "E.2.3 Xiangqi game symbols", UTC #151 Minutes | |||||
| , ) | "M66.03d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23 | ||||
| Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), "D. Chess Symbols", WG2 Consent Docket | |||||
| Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C5", UTC #153 Minutes | |||||
| 12.0 | U+1FA00..1FA53 | 84 | Wallace, Garth (2016-10-26), Proposal to Encode Heterodox Chess Symbols | ||
| Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-11-07), "13. Chess", Recommendations to UTC #149 November 2016 on Script Proposals | |||||
| Wallace, Garth; Everson, Michael (2017-03-28), Revised Proposal to Encode Heterodox Chess Symbols in the UCS | |||||
| Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "22. Chess symbols", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals | |||||
| Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "E.2.1", UTC #151 Minutes | |||||
| , ) | "M66.07j", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23 | ||||
| Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C15", UTC #153 Minutes | |||||
| 17.0 | U+1FA54..1FA57 | 4 | Bala, Gavin Jared; Miller, Kirk (2023-12-22), Unicode request for shatranj symbols | ||
| Anderson, Deborah; Goregaokar, Manish; Kučera, Jan; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2024-01-22), "13. Shatranj symbols", Recommendations to UTC #178 January 2024 on Script Proposals | |||||
| Constable, Peter (2024-01-31), "Consensus 178-C35", UTC #178 Minutes | |||||