Chess Symbols

This article is about the Unicode block. For the evaluation of chess moves, see Chess annotation symbols.

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:

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).

Block

Chess Symbols[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

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U+1FA0x

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U+1FA1x

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U+1FA2x

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U+1FA3x

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U+1FA4x

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U+1FA5x

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U+1FA6x

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🩦

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Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 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	L2/10-368	N3910	Proposal for Encoding Chinese Chess Symbol in the SMP, 2010-09-16
			L2/10-463	N3966	Re: Proposal for encoding Chinese chess symbols, 2010-11-05
			L2/10-416R		Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "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)", 2011-03-03
				N3903 (pdf, doc)	"M57.28 (Chinese Chess symbols)", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
				N4103	"11.8 Comments on N3910 "Proposal for Encoding Chinese Chess Symbols"", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
			L2/16-255	N4748	West, Andrew (2016-09-12), Proposal to encode Xiangqi game symbols
			L2/16-270	N4766	Everson, Michael (2016-09-28), Recommendations for encoding Xiàngqí game symbols
				N4873R (pdf, doc)	"10.3.10", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16
			L2/16-325		Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "Consensus 149-C8", UTC #149 Minutes
			L2/17-161	N4794	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
			L2/17-103		Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "E.2.3 Xiangqi game symbols", UTC #151 Minutes
				N4953 (pdf, doc)	"M66.03d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23
			L2/17-353		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), "D. Chess Symbols", WG2 Consent Docket
			L2/17-362		Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C5", UTC #153 Minutes
12.0	U+1FA00..1FA53	84	L2/16-293		Wallace, Garth (2016-10-26), Proposal to Encode Heterodox Chess Symbols
			L2/16-342		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-11-07), "13. Chess", Recommendations to UTC #149 November 2016 on Script Proposals
			L2/17-034R4	N4784R	Wallace, Garth; Everson, Michael (2017-03-28), Revised Proposal to Encode Heterodox Chess Symbols in the UCS
			L2/17-153		Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "22. Chess symbols", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
			L2/17-103		Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "E.2.1", UTC #151 Minutes
				N4953 (pdf, doc)	"M66.07j", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23
			L2/17-362		Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C15", UTC #153 Minutes

See also

• Chess symbols in Unicode