{{About|the Unicode block|the evaluation of chess moves|Chess annotation symbols}} {{short description|Unicode block}} {{Infobox Unicode block |blockname = Chess Symbols |rangestart = 1FA00 |rangeend = 1FA6F |script1 = [[Script (Unicode)#Special script property values|Common]] |symbols = Chess symbols<br />Xiangqi symbols |11_0 = 14 |12_0 = 84 |17_0 = 4 |note = <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/ucd/|title=Unicode character database|work=The Unicode Standard|accessdate=2023-07-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html|title=Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard|work=The Unicode Standard|accessdate=2023-07-26}}</ref> }}
[[File:UCB_Chess_Symbols.png | thumb | right | alt=Graphical representation of the Chess Symbols Unicode block | Graphical representation of the Chess Symbols Unicode block]] '''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).<ref>{{cite book | title = The Unicode Standard, Version 12.0 | chapter = Chapter 22: Symbols | publisher = Unicode, Inc | date = March 2019 | location = Mountain View, CA | url = https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode12.0.0/ch22.pdf | isbn = 978-1-936213-22-1 }}</ref>
==Block== {{Contains special characters | special = uncommon [[Unicode]] characters | fix = Help:Multilingual support | image = Replacement character.svg | link = Specials (Unicode block)#Replacement character | alt = <?> | compact = yes |section = table }} {{Unicode chart Chess Symbols}}
==History== The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Chess Symbols block:
{{sticky header}} {| class="wikitable collapsible sticky-header" |- ! [[Unicode#Versions|Version]] !! {{nobr|Final code points<ref group=lower-alpha name=final/>}} !! Count !! [[International Committee for Information Technology Standards|L2]] ID !! [[ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2|WG2]] ID !! Document |- | rowspan="15" | 11.0 || rowspan="15" | U+1FA60..1FA6D || rowspan="15" | 14 || {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10368-n3910.pdf L2/10-368]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3910.pdf N3910] || {{Citation|title=Proposal for Encoding Chinese Chess Symbol in the SMP|date=2010-09-16|ref=none}} |- | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10463-chinese-chess.pdf L2/10-463]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3966.pdf N3966] || {{Citation|title=Re: Proposal for encoding Chinese chess symbols|date=2010-11-05|ref=none}} |- | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10416.htm L2/10-416R]}} || || {{Citation|title=UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes|date=2010-11-09|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=C.15}} |- | || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3992.pdf N3992] || {{Citation|title=R.O. Korea's Comments on "Proposal for Encoding Chinese Chess Symbol in the SMP (WG2 N3910)"|date=2011-03-03|ref=none}} |- | || {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3903.pdf N3903 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3903.doc doc]) || {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57|date=2011-03-31|ref=none|section=M57.28 (Chinese Chess symbols)}} |- | || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4103.pdf N4103] || {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58|date=2012-01-03|ref=none|section=11.8 Comments on N3910 "Proposal for Encoding Chinese Chess Symbols"}} |- | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16255-n4748-xiangqi.pdf L2/16-255]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4748-xiangqi.pdf N4748] || {{Citation|title=Proposal to encode Xiangqi game symbols|date=2016-09-12|first=Andrew|last=West|author-link=Andrew West (linguist)|ref=none}} |- | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16270-n4766-xiangqi.pdf L2/16-270]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4766-xiangqi.pdf N4766] || {{Citation|title=Recommendations for encoding Xiàngqí game symbols|date=2016-09-28|first=Michael|last=Everson|author-link=Michael Everson|ref=none}} |- | || {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4873R-M65-Minutes.pdf N4873R (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4873R-M65-Minutes.doc doc]) || {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65|date=2018-03-16|ref=none|section=10.3.10}} |- | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm L2/16-325]}} || || {{Citation|title=UTC #149 Minutes|date=2016-11-18|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=Consensus 149-C8}} |- | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17161-n4794-pdam1-2.pdf L2/17-161]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4794-pdam1-2DDOC.pdf N4794] || {{Citation|title=Draft disposition of comments on PDAM1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 5th edition|date=2017-05-08|first=Michel|last=Suignard|ref=none|section=China T3, UK T7. Sub-clause 33}} |- | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17103.htm L2/17-103]}} || || {{Citation|title=UTC #151 Minutes|date=2017-05-18|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=E.2.3 Xiangqi game symbols}} |- | || {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4953-M66-Minutes.pdf N4953 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4953-M66-Minutes.doc doc]) || {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66|date=2018-03-23|ref=none|section=M66.03d}} |- | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17353-wg2-consent-docket.pdf L2/17-353]}} || || {{Citation|title=WG2 Consent Docket|date=2017-10-02|first1=Deborah|last1=Anderson|first2=Ken|last2=Whistler|ref=none|section=D. Chess Symbols}} |- | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17362.htm L2/17-362]}} || || {{Citation|title=UTC #153 Minutes|date=2018-02-02|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=Consensus 153-C5}} |- | rowspan="7" | 12.0 || rowspan="7" | U+1FA00..1FA53 || rowspan="7" | 84 || {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16293-heterdox-chess.pdf L2/16-293]}} || || {{Citation|title=Proposal to Encode Heterodox Chess Symbols|date=2016-10-26|first=Garth|last=Wallace|ref=none}} |- | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16342-script-ad-hoc.pdf L2/16-342]}} || || {{Citation|title=Recommendations to UTC #149 November 2016 on Script Proposals|date=2016-11-07|first1=Deborah|last1=Anderson|first2=Ken|last2=Whistler|first3=Roozbeh|last3=Pournader|first4=Andrew|last4=Glass|first5=Laurențiu|last5=Iancu|ref=none|section=13. Chess}} |- | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17034r3-n4784r-fairy-chess.pdf L2/17-034R4]}} || [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4784r2-fairy-chess.pdf N4784R] || {{Citation|title=Revised Proposal to Encode Heterodox Chess Symbols in the UCS|date=2017-03-28|first1=Garth|last1=Wallace|first2=Michael|last2=Everson|ref=none}} |- | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17153-script-ad-hoc-rec.pdf L2/17-153]}} || || {{Citation|title=Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals|date=2017-05-17|first=Deborah|last=Anderson|ref=none|section=22. Chess symbols}} |- | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17103.htm L2/17-103]}} || || {{Citation|title=UTC #151 Minutes|date=2017-05-18|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=E.2.1}} |- | || {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4953-M66-Minutes.pdf N4953 (pdf],}} [https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4953-M66-Minutes.doc doc]) || {{Citation|title=Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66|date=2018-03-23|ref=none|section=M66.07j}} |- | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17362.htm L2/17-362]}} || || {{Citation|title=UTC #153 Minutes|date=2018-02-02|first=Lisa|last=Moore|ref=none|section=Consensus 153-C15}} |- | rowspan="3" | 17.0 || rowspan="3" | U+1FA54..1FA57 || rowspan="3" | 4 || {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24020-shatranj-symbols.pdf L2/24-020]}} || || {{Citation|title=Unicode request for shatranj symbols|date=2023-12-22|first1=Gavin Jared|last1=Bala|first2=Kirk|last2=Miller|ref=none}} |- | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24013r-script-adhoc-rept.pdf L2/24-013R]}} || || {{Citation|title=Recommendations to UTC #178 January 2024 on Script Proposals|date=2024-01-22|first1=Deborah|last1=Anderson|first2=Manish|last2=Goregaokar|first3=Jan|last3=Kučera|first4=Ken|last4=Whistler|first5=Roozbeh|last5=Pournader|first6=Peter|last6=Constable|ref=none|section=13. Shatranj symbols}} |- | {{nobr|[https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24006.htm L2/24-006]}} || || {{Citation|title=UTC #178 Minutes|date=2024-01-31|first=Peter|last=Constable|ref=none|section=Consensus 178-C35}} |- class="sortbottom" | colspan="6" | {{reflist|group=lower-alpha|refs=<ref name=final>Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names</ref>}} |}
==See also== * [[Chess symbols in Unicode]]
== References == {{reflist}}
[[Category:Unicode blocks]] [[Category:Unicode blocks with characters for games]] [[Category:Xiangqi]] [[Category:Fairy chess]]