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Character
Name
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U+2654. First of the twelve in the code chart, number 9812: a web page can call it up with ♔.
U+2655. Where plain notation writes the letter Q, figurine notation prints a queen like this one.
U+2656. Castle-shaped and left unfilled. Rooks start a game in the corners. ♖ by number.
U+2657. Unfilled, with the tall pointed cap that marks the piece. ♗ by number.
U+2658. Drawn as the head and neck of a horse, left unfilled.
U+2659. The smallest figure of the set, in outline. Pawns alone get no letter when moves are written down.
U+265A. Number 9818, where the solid pieces begin, in the same order as the white ones.
U+265B. The solid one printed in ♛f1, the figurine way of writing Qf1.
U+265C. The tower again, inked in. ♜ by number.
U+265D. The pointed cap again, inked in: ♝.
U+265E. The horse again, as a silhouette: ♞ by number.
U+265F. Last of the twelve, ♟, and the single piece that an emoji selector turns into a picture.
U+265F U+FE0F. The one chess emoji: the black pawn followed by an emoji selector, listed since Emoji 11.0. King, queen, rook, bishop and knight have none.
The leading piece of each side, hollow first.
One queen unfilled and its inked twin, U+2655 then U+265B.
The unfilled horse and the filled one.
Towers of both colors, light before dark.
U+2657 then U+265D: the bishop of each army.
The small piece twice over: outline and silhouette.
Half of White’s back row as a game begins: rook in the corner, then knight, bishop and queen.
The other half: king beside the queen, then bishop, knight and the second corner rook. Pasted after the first half it makes the whole row.
Black’s matching half, corner rook to queen.
Black’s king, bishop, knight and rook, to finish that row.
A run of pale pawns to paste twice for a full rank.
The dark pawns, as many again, to set in front of Black’s pieces.
U+1FA00. A king that is neither white nor black, for fairy chess problems. One of the Chess Symbols block added in Unicode 12.0 (2019); a device with no font for it draws an empty box.
U+1FA01. The neutral queen: one half hollow, one half inked.
U+1FA04. The neutral knight, split between the two colors the same way.
U+1FA4E. A knighted piece: queen and knight in one. Unicode also lists the names amazon and superqueen.
U+1FA54. A piece of shatranj, one of four that came with Unicode 17.0 (2025).
The chess symbols are twelve Unicode characters, U+2654 to U+265F: king, queen, rook, bishop, knight and pawn, white ♔♕♖♗♘♙ and black ♚♛♜♝♞♟. They are text, so they copy and paste like letters.
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White pieces and black pieces
The white pieces are drawn in outline and the black ones solid. The knight symbol is ♘ or ♞, the rook ♖ or ♜, the bishop ♗ or ♝, the queen ♕ or ♛ and the king ♔ or ♚. Printed chess uses them in figurine notation: ♛f1 where plain ASCII writes Qf1.
Chess emoji and codes
Only the pawn is an emoji: ♟️, chess pawn. No emoji shows a king, a queen, a knight or a chess board. No Alt code types a chess piece; in HTML the code for ♔ is ♔, and the rest follow in order to ♟.
Two halves of four make a starting row; four rows make both sides of a text board.
Every piece but the pawn has a letter in written moves.
A later block of fairy chess characters shows as empty boxes on many devices.
Questions and answers
Is there a chess emoji?
One: ♟️, chess pawn, the black pawn character followed by an emoji selector. The other chess pieces are text symbols only, so there is no king chess piece emoji and no chess knight emoji.
What is the Unicode for the chess pieces?
U+2654 to U+2659 for the white king, queen, rook, bishop, knight and pawn, and U+265A to U+265F for the black ones. All twelve are in the Miscellaneous Symbols block.
What is the knight symbol in chess?
♘ is the white knight symbol, U+2658, and ♞ the black one, U+265E. Both show the head of a horse.
Can I copy and paste chess pieces as text?
Yes. Each piece is a Unicode character and not a picture, so it pastes into any text. The drawing comes from the font, which is why the same piece looks different from one device to the next.
All 30 chess symbols
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♝Black chess bishopU+265D. The pointed cap again, inked in: ♝.
♚Black chess kingU+265A. Number 9818, where the solid pieces begin, in the same order as the white ones.
♞Black chess knightU+265E. The horse again, as a silhouette: ♞ by number.
♟Black chess pawnU+265F. Last of the twelve, ♟, and the single piece that an emoji selector turns into a picture.
♛Black chess queenU+265B. The solid one printed in ♛f1, the figurine way of writing Qf1.
♜Black chess rookU+265C. The tower again, inked in. ♜ by number.
♗White chess bishopU+2657. Unfilled, with the tall pointed cap that marks the piece. ♗ by number.
♔White chess kingU+2654. First of the twelve in the code chart, number 9812: a web page can call it up with ♔.
♘White chess knightU+2658. Drawn as the head and neck of a horse, left unfilled.
♙White chess pawnU+2659. The smallest figure of the set, in outline. Pawns alone get no letter when moves are written down.
♕White chess queenU+2655. Where plain notation writes the letter Q, figurine notation prints a queen like this one.
♖White chess rookU+2656. Castle-shaped and left unfilled. Rooks start a game in the corners. ♖ by number.
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Emoji 1
♟️Chess pawnU+265F U+FE0F. The one chess emoji: the black pawn followed by an emoji selector, listed since Emoji 11.0. King, queen, rook, bishop and knight have none.
Pairs 6
♗♝The two bishopsU+2657 then U+265D: the bishop of each army.
♔♚The two kingsThe leading piece of each side, hollow first.
♘♞The two knightsThe unfilled horse and the filled one.
♙♟The two pawnsThe small piece twice over: outline and silhouette.
♕♛The two queensOne queen unfilled and its inked twin, U+2655 then U+265B.
♖♜The two rooksTowers of both colors, light before dark.
Starting rows, in halves 6
♚♝♞♜Black back row, king’s halfBlack’s king, bishop, knight and rook, to finish that row.
♜♞♝♛Black back row, queen’s halfBlack’s matching half, corner rook to queen.
♟♟♟♟Four black pawnsThe dark pawns, as many again, to set in front of Black’s pieces.
♙♙♙♙Four white pawnsA run of pale pawns to paste twice for a full rank.
♔♗♘♖White back row, king’s halfThe other half: king beside the queen, then bishop, knight and the second corner rook. Pasted after the first half it makes the whole row.
♖♘♗♕White back row, queen’s halfHalf of White’s back row as a game begins: rook in the corner, then knight, bishop and queen.
May be an empty box 5
🨀Neutral chess kingU+1FA00. A king that is neither white nor black, for fairy chess problems. One of the Chess Symbols block added in Unicode 12.0 (2019); a device with no font for it draws an empty box.
🨄Neutral chess knightU+1FA04. The neutral knight, split between the two colors the same way.
🨁Neutral chess queenU+1FA01. The neutral queen: one half hollow, one half inked.
White chess ferzU+1FA54. A piece of shatranj, one of four that came with Unicode 17.0 (2025).
🩎White chess knight-queenU+1FA4E. A knighted piece: queen and knight in one. Unicode also lists the names amazon and superqueen.