Chess symbols in Unicode

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Font depictions of Unicode chess symbols (in the same order as the table). Top: Arial Unicode MS font. Bottom:Tahoma font.

Instead of using images, one can represent chess pieces by symbols that are defined in the Unicode character set. This makes it possible to:

In order to display or print these symbols, one has to have one or more fonts with good Unicode support installed on the computer, and the document (Web page, word processor document, etc.) must use one of these fonts.[1]

The following are symbols of chess pieces in Unicode.

Symbol Codepoint HTML
white king U+2654 ♔
white queen U+2655 ♕
white rook U+2656 ♖
white bishop U+2657 ♗
white knight U+2658 ♘
white pawn U+2659 ♙
black king U+265A ♚
black queen U+265B ♛
black rook U+265C ♜
black bishop U+265D ♝
black knight U+265E ♞
black pawn U+265F ♟

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