White Chess Bishop
White Chess Bishop has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ♗
- Unicode
- U+2657
About this symbol
The bishop moves any distance diagonally. In the older game it was an elephant, and in Russian it is still called the elephant; in English it became a bishop, perhaps from the shape of the piece’s split top, like a mitre.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- WHITE CHESS BISHOP
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Unicode group
- Chess symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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