Chess piece symbols
All twelve chess pieces in Unicode — kings, queens, rooks, bishops, knights and pawns, white and black.
The six chess pieces exist in Unicode as twelve characters: a white set and a black set, lifted directly from standard diagram notation. They render identically across every modern browser and OS, which is why they show up on chess.com forum posts, Lichess study annotations and tournament report cards alike.
Note that "white" and "black" in Unicode refer to the glyph's fill, not the playing side: ♔ is an outlined king, ♚ is a filled one. On a dark background you'll often want the outlined ("white") set for legibility, regardless of which side you mean.
The chess piece symbols set
More use cases
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