Chess Symbols (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Chess Symbols
RangeU+1FA00..U+1FA6F
(112 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Assigned14 code points
Unused98 reserved code points
Unicode version history
11.014 (+14)
Note: [1][2]

Chess Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for chess notations beyond the basic Western chess symbols in the Miscellaneous Symbols block.[3] The Chess Symbols block currently contains symbols representing game pieces for xiangqi (Chinese chess).

Block

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
11.0 U+1FA60..1FA6D 14 L2/10-368 N3910 Proposal for Encoding Chinese Chess Symbol in the SMP, 2010-09-16 
L2/10-390R Resolutions of WG2 meeting #57, Busan Korea, 2010-10-11 
L2/10-463 N3966 Re: Proposal for encoding Chinese chess symbols, 2010-11-05 
L2/10-416R Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes 
N3992 R.O. Korea's Comments on "Proposal for Encoding Chinese Chess Symbol in the SMP (WG2 N3910)", 2011-03-03 
N3903 Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31 
L2/11-239 N4104 Resolutions of WG 2 meeting 58, 2011-06-10 
L2/17-161 N4794 Suignard, Michel (2017-05-08), Draft disposition of comments on PDAM1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 5th edition 
L2/17-103 Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), UTC #151 Minutes 
L2/17-353 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), WG2 Consent Docket 
L2/17-362 Moore, Lisa (2017-11-08), UTC #153 Minutes 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org. Retrieved 2018-06-06. 
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2018-06-06. 
  3. "Chapter 22: Symbols". The Unicode Standard, Version 11.0. Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. June 2018. ISBN 978-1-936213-19-1. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode11.0.0/ch22.pdf.