Chess & Card Symbols
114Chess pieces, playing card suits, and game icons.
Free Unicode chess & card symbols to copy and paste. Click any glyph to copy instantly, hover to save or open the vector-style editor (recolor, resize, background shapes, SVG/PNG export). License: standard Unicode characters — free for personal and commercial use.
Chess and card symbols let you show game pieces and suits as plain text. The full chess set — king ♔, queen ♕, rook ♖, bishop ♗, knight ♘, and pawn ♙ — comes in both white and black outlines, alongside the four card suits ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣.
These are perfect for chess notation, card-game guides, tournament posts, and playful usernames. Click any piece or suit to copy it, then paste it into notes, messages, or design tools.
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Frequently asked questions
Can I use these chess symbols for notation?+
Yes. The Unicode chess pieces are widely used in books, blogs, and apps to display positions and moves as text instead of images. They keep their meaning when copied into documents and web pages.
Why are there white and black versions of each piece?+
Unicode includes an outlined (white) and a filled (black) version of each chess piece so you can represent both sides of the board. For example, ♔ is the white king and ♚ is the black king.
Do card suit symbols show in color?+
The classic suit characters ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ are text symbols, so they usually appear in your text color rather than red and black. If you need colored suits, the emoji versions (♠️ ♥️ ♦️ ♣️) render in color on most platforms.