Chess Symbols

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Short description: Unicode block
Short description: Unicode character block
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
11.014 (+14)
12.098 (+84)
Note: [1][2]

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).[3]

Block

Template:Unicode chart Chess Symbols

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Chess Symbols block:

See also

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 
  3. "Chapter 22: Symbols". The Unicode Standard, Version 12.0. Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. March 2019. ISBN 978-1-936213-22-1. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode12.0.0/ch22.pdf.