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]
| Chess Symbols | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1FA00..U+1FA6F (112 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Symbol sets | Chess symbols Xiangqi symbols |
| Assigned | 98 code points |
| Unused | 14 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] | |
Block
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||
History
editThe following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Chess Symbols block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | 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, 2025-08-05 |
| L2/10-463 | N3966 | Re: Proposal for encoding Chinese chess symbols, 2025-08-05 | |||
| L2/10-416R | Moore, Lisa (2025-08-05), "C.15", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes | ||||
| N3992 | R.O. Korea's Comments on "Proposal for Encoding Chinese Chess Symbol in the SMP (WG2 N3910)", 2025-08-05 | ||||
| N3903 (pdf, doc) | "M57.28 (Chinese Chess symbols)", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2025-08-05 | ||||
| N4103 | "11.8 Comments on N3910 "Proposal for Encoding Chinese Chess Symbols"", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2025-08-05 | ||||
| L2/16-255 | N4748 | West, Andrew (2025-08-05), Proposal to encode Xiangqi game symbols | |||
| L2/16-270 | N4766 | Everson, Michael (2025-08-05), Recommendations for encoding Xiàngqí game symbols | |||
| N4873R (pdf, doc) | "10.3.10", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2025-08-05 | ||||
| L2/16-325 | Moore, Lisa (2025-08-05), "Consensus 149-C8", UTC #149 Minutes | ||||
| L2/17-161 | N4794 | Suignard, Michel (2025-08-05), "China T3, UK T7. Sub-clause 33", Draft disposition of comments on PDAM1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 5th edition | |||
| L2/17-103 | Moore, Lisa (2025-08-05), "E.2.3 Xiangqi game symbols", UTC #151 Minutes | ||||
| N4953 (pdf, doc) | "M66.03d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2025-08-05 | ||||
| L2/17-353 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2025-08-05), "D. Chess Symbols", WG2 Consent Docket | ||||
| L2/17-362 | Moore, Lisa (2025-08-05), "Consensus 153-C5", UTC #153 Minutes | ||||
| 12.0 | U+1FA00..1FA53 | 84 | L2/16-293 | Wallace, Garth (2025-08-05), Proposal to Encode Heterodox Chess Symbols | |
| L2/16-342 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Lauren?iu (2025-08-05), "13. Chess", Recommendations to UTC #149 November 2016 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/17-034R4 | N4784R | Wallace, Garth; Everson, Michael (2025-08-05), Revised Proposal to Encode Heterodox Chess Symbols in the UCS | |||
| L2/17-153 | Anderson, Deborah (2025-08-05), "22. Chess symbols", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/17-103 | Moore, Lisa (2025-08-05), "E.2.1", UTC #151 Minutes | ||||
| N4953 (pdf, doc) | "M66.07j", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2025-08-05 | ||||
| L2/17-362 | Moore, Lisa (2025-08-05), "Consensus 153-C15", UTC #153 Minutes | ||||
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2025-08-05.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2025-08-05.
- ^ "Chapter 22: Symbols". The Unicode Standard, Version 12.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. March 2019. ISBN 978-1-936213-22-1.