Chess, card suit and dice symbols

Piece	White	Black	Letter in notation
King	♔	♚	K
Queen	♕	♛	Q
Rook	♖	♜	R
Bishop	♗	♝	B
Knight	♘	♞	N
Pawn	♙	♟	(none)

The twelve pieces sit together at U+2654–U+265F, from WHITE CHESS KING to BLACK CHESS PAWN. White means the outline drawing and black the filled one. On a dark screen that can look reversed, so check how your pieces read before posting a position.

♟ has a second life as the chess pawn emoji ♟️. Some apps draw ♟ in color as an emoji while the other pieces stay as text, which makes a set look mismatched. If that happens, use the text pieces in a document or image instead.

Standard algebraic notation names each square by file (a–h) and rank (1–8):

• A move is the piece letter plus the target square: Nf3 moves a knight to f3. Pawn moves have no letter: e4.
• x means capture (Bxf7), + check, # checkmate.
• O-O is castling kingside, O-O-O castling queenside.
• e8=Q is a pawn promoting to a queen.
• Results: 1-0 (White wins), 0-1 (Black wins), ½-½ (draw).

Figurine notation swaps the letters for piece symbols, so a score sheet can be read in any language: 1. e4 e5 2. ♘f3 ♘c6 3. ♗b5. Copy the pieces from this page and build the line in the text box at the bottom.

Each suit comes in a filled and an outline version:

Suit	Filled	Outline	Windows	HTML
Spades	♠	♤	Alt + 6	♠
Hearts	♥	♡	Alt + 3	♥
Diamonds	♦	♢	Alt + 4	♦
Clubs	♣	♧	Alt + 5	♣

The Alt codes use the numeric keypad and come from the original PC character set; they work in most classic Windows programs. In bridge, suits rank spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs, from highest to lowest, which is handy when you write up a hand like ♠ AK73 ♥ Q4.

The filled suits also have emoji forms (♠️ ♥️ ♦️ ♣️), which phones may draw in color. If you want the classic red hearts and diamonds in a document, set the text color yourself rather than relying on emoji.

Unicode has a whole Playing Cards block with every card of a standard deck, plus jokers. This page includes 🂡 (PLAYING CARD ACE OF SPADES) and 🃏 (PLAYING CARD BLACK JOKER). At normal text size the card characters are small and detailed, so make them bigger if you use them in a design. 🃏 is also an emoji and usually appears in color.

Dice faces run from ⚀ (DIE FACE-1) to ⚅ (DIE FACE-6). They're useful for board game rules, tabletop game notes and quick game prompts. 🎲 is the game die emoji, showing a cube rather than a single face. To actually roll, use the dice roller.

Chess pieces and dice have no Alt codes. In Microsoft Word, type the code and press Alt + X: 2654 for ♔, 265E for ♞, 2680 for ⚀. On a Mac, Control + Command + Space opens the Character Viewer, where searching for chess or die finds them. On Linux, use Ctrl + Shift + U and the code.

For websites, the detail panel gives the HTML code, the CSS escape (for example \265A) and the JavaScript escape. For a readable chess diagram in text, pick a font where all pieces have the same width; otherwise the rows won't line up. Recently used symbols appear at the top of the page, stored only in your browser, so your favorite suits or pieces are always one click away.