Chess text symbols

Quickly copy and paste chess pieces and generate Unicode chess boards.

White king
White queen
White rook
White bishop
White knight
White pawn
Black king
Black queen
Black rook
Black bishop
Black knight
Black pawn

Crown symbols

and other chess-related Unicode characters
Black king
White king
White queen
Black queen
Crown emoji
👑
Prince emoji
🤴
Princess emoji
👸
European castle emoji
🏰
Japanese castle emoji
🏯
Horse emoji
🐴

Chess symbols and Unicode

Typefaces with chess symbols existed long before digital type. Chess players used these fonts in illustrations and shorthand notation of chess games.

So it’s not surprising that Unicode added chess symbols shortly after it was founded. Unicode chess symbols allow coders to create smaller chess programs by saving memory used to store the graphics for each piece.

Monospace board
╔═╤═╤═╤═╤═╤═╤═╤═╗
║♜│♞│♝│♛│♚│♝│♞│♜║
╟─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─╢
║♟│♟│♟│♟│♟│♟│♟│♟║
╟─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─╢
║ │░│ │░│ │░│ │░║
╟─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─╢
║░│ │░│ │░│ │░│ ║
╟─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─╢
║ │░│ │░│ │░│ │░║
╟─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─╢
║░│ │░│ │░│ │░│ ║
╟─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─╢
║♙│♙│♙│♙│♙│♙│♙│♙║
╟─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─╢
║♖│♘│♗│♕│♔│♗│♘│♖║
╚═╧═╧═╧═╧═╧═╧═╧═╝
Monospace board with coordinates
╔═╤═╤═╤═╤═╤═╤═╤═╗╮
║♜│♞│♝│♛│♚│♝│♞│♜║8
╟─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─╢┊
║♟│♟│♟│♟│♟│♟│♟│♟║7
╟─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─╢┊
║ │░│ │░│ │░│ │░║6
╟─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─╢┊
║░│ │░│ │░│ │░│ ║5
╟─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─╢┊
║ │░│ │░│ │░│ │░║4
╟─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─╢┊
║░│ │░│ │░│ │░│ ║3
╟─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─╢┊
║♙│♙│♙│♙│♙│♙│♙│♙║2
╟─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─┼─╢┊
║♖│♘│♗│♕│♔│♗│♘│♖║1
╚═╧═╧═╧═╧═╧═╧═╧═╝┊
╰a┈b┈c┈d┈e┈f┈g┈h┈╯
Small monospace board
╔════════╗
║♜♞♝♛♚♝♞♜║
║♟♟♟♟♟♟♟♟║
║▒█▒█▒█▒█║
║█▒█▒█▒█▒║
║▒█▒█▒█▒█║
║█▒█▒█▒█▒║
║♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙║
║♖♘♗♕♔♗♘♖║
╚════════╝
Enclosed alphanumerics

🆁🅽🅱🆀🅺🅱🅽🆁
🅿🅿🅿🅿🅿🅿🅿🅿
🅇🆇🅇🆇🅇🆇🅇🆇
🆇🅇🆇🅇🆇🅇🆇🅇
🅇🆇🅇🆇🅇🆇🅇🆇
🆇🅇🆇🅇🆇🅇🆇🅇
🄿🄿🄿🄿🄿🄿🄿🄿
🅁🄽‍🄱🅀🄺‍🄱🄽🅁
Rise of the Crab King

🐙🦐🦑‍🦞🦀🦑‍🦐🐙
🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤
⛰🌊⛰🌊⛰🌊⛰🌊
🌊⛰🌊⛰🌊⛰🌊⛰
⛰🌊⛰🌊⛰🌊⛰🌊
🌊⛰🌊⛰🌊⛰🌊⛰
👮👮👮👮👮👮👮👮
🏰🏇‍🤺👸🤴‍🤺🏇🏰

Toledo Nanochess

Toledo Nanochess is one example of these tiny chess programs. This one was written in JavaScript in only 2.2kb by Óscar Toledo G.

It’s been changed slightly to work with the JavaScript framework used by this website. You can find the original here.

Over the years, Unicode added other game symbols, including playing cards 🂡, dice ⚅, dominos 🁌, Mahjong 🀅, Shogi ☖, Draughts ⛀, and Go ⚆.

Alternative chess symbols

There are hundreds of variations on chess and chess puzzles. Many of these variations use different chess symbols, but they aren’t included here since rendering them requires installing a special font.

You can read more about alternative chess symbols on Wikipedia.

How to use Unicode chess symbols

To use these symbols, simply copy them to your clipboard and paste them as you would any text online.

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