Symbol & Emoji Library
Chess & Card Symbols
Chess pieces and playing-card suits.
Where these characters come from
Chess pieces and card suits were encoded for notation and puzzle composition — printing a chess problem or a bridge hand in plain text requires exactly these characters.
How reliably they render
Card suits are very reliable and long-established. Chess pieces are well supported, though the white and black pieces can be hard to distinguish at small sizes in some fonts.
Questions
Can I write chess notation in plain text?
Yes — that is why these characters exist. Combined with algebraic notation they let a game or a puzzle be published as text rather than as an image, which is how chess problems circulated before diagrams were easy to embed.
Why do the white and black pieces look so similar?
In many fonts the outlined and filled pieces differ only in fill, which is hard to distinguish at small sizes. If clarity matters, label the side in text rather than relying on the glyph alone.
Code points and HTML entities
| Char | Code point | HTML | CSS |
|---|---|---|---|
| ♔ | U+2654 | ♔ | \2654 |
| ♕ | U+2655 | ♕ | \2655 |
| ♖ | U+2656 | ♖ | \2656 |
| ♗ | U+2657 | ♗ | \2657 |
| ♘ | U+2658 | ♘ | \2658 |
| ♙ | U+2659 | ♙ | \2659 |
| ♚ | U+265A | ♚ | \265A |
| ♛ | U+265B | ♛ | \265B |
| ♜ | U+265C | ♜ | \265C |
| ♝ | U+265D | ♝ | \265D |
| ♞ | U+265E | ♞ | \265E |
| ♟ | U+265F | ♟ | \265F |
| ♠ | U+2660 | ♠ | \2660 |
| ♡ | U+2661 | ♡ | \2661 |
| ♢ | U+2662 | ♢ | \2662 |
| ♣ | U+2663 | ♣ | \2663 |
| ♤ | U+2664 | ♤ | \2664 |
| ♥ | U+2665 | ♥ | \2665 |
| ♦ | U+2666 | ♦ | \2666 |
| ♧ | U+2667 | ♧ | \2667 |
| ⚀ | U+2680 | ⚀ | \2680 |
| ⚁ | U+2681 | ⚁ | \2681 |
| ⚂ | U+2682 | ⚂ | \2682 |
| ⚃ | U+2683 | ⚃ | \2683 |
| ⚄ | U+2684 | ⚄ | \2684 |
| ⚅ | U+2685 | ⚅ | \2685 |