Chess Symbols

This article is about the Unicode block. For the evaluation of chess moves, see Chess annotation symbols.
Chess Symbols
RangeU+1FA00..U+1FA6F
(112 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsChess symbols
Xiangqi symbols
Assigned98 code points
Unused14 reserved code points
Unicode version history
11.0 (2018)14 (+14)
12.0 (2019)98 (+84)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Chess Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for fairy chess and related notations beyond the basic Western chess symbols in the Miscellaneous Symbols block, as well as symbols representing game pieces for xiangqi (Chinese chess).[3]

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ^ "Chapter 22: Symbols". The Unicode Standard, Version 12.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. March 2019. ISBN 978-1-936213-22-1.