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).
Block
History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Chess Symbols block:
Version Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document 11.0 U+1FA60..1FA6D 14 N3910 N3966 N3992 doc) N4103 N4748 N4766 doc) N4794 doc) 12.0 U+1FA00..1FA53 84 N4784R doc) 17.0 U+1FA54..1FA57 4
See also Chess symbols in Unicode
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