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Last reviewed on October 31, 2026
Unicode places the chess pieces in one run, U+2654 to U+265F: six outlined pieces it calls white, then six filled ones it calls black. In each set the order is king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, pawn. The names describe the glyph style, not the side of the board you must use it for.
On a dark background the outlined pieces can look faint or hollow, which is why many people use the filled set for both sides and tell them apart by color. The black pawn (U+265F) is also treated as an emoji on some systems and may appear as a colored icon. Adding U+FE0E after it requests the plain text look.
Figurine algebraic notation replaces the piece letters with these glyphs, so a knight move reads ♘f3 instead of Nf3. You can also build a simple text board by alternating pieces with dots or spaces in a monospaced font. Square size varies by font, so a board may look uneven outside code blocks.
Chess glyphs are included in most system symbol fonts, including DejaVu Sans, Segoe UI Symbol and Apple Symbols. Size is the main difference. At small sizes the knight and the bishop can look alike, so use a larger font size for diagrams, or add letters beside the pieces in text boards.
White pieces are U+2654 to U+2659 and black pieces are U+265A to U+265F, in the order king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, pawn.
U+265F is an emoji-capable character, so some phones render it as a colored emoji. Add the variation selector U+FE0E to ask for the text style.
Yes. Use a monospaced font and alternate pieces with spaces or dots on each row. Alignment depends on how the font sizes each glyph.