BabelStone Fonts

BabelStone Xiangqi

Description

BabelStone Xiangqi is a font covering the Xiangqi 象棋 (Chinese chess) symbols in the Chess Symbols block of the Unicode Standard. These symbols were proposed for encoding by myself in September 2016 (see WG2 N4748), and were added to Unicode version 11.0 in June 2018 (code charts).

There are two versions of the font:

BabelStone Xiangqi with black and white glyphs for the Xiangqi game pieces. The red pieces are depicted as black Chinese characters on a white background; and the black pieces are depicted as white Chinese characters on a black background.
BabelStone Xiangqi Colour with colour glyphs for the Xiangqi game pieces. The red pieces are depicted as red Chinese characters on a sandy yellow background; and the black pieces are depicted as black Chinese characters on a sandy yellow background. Colour fonts are supported by most modern browsers, and some applications such as Microsoft Word 2016. Applications that do not support colour fonts will render the Xiangqi glyphs in black and white (the same as for BabelStone Xiangqi).

The font also includes box drawing characters to facilitate the drawing of Xiangqi game boards and game diagrams. However, the set of box drawing characters in the Unicode Standard do not include characters with horizontal/vertical and diagonal lines that can be used to draw the castle, or characters with emphasized intersections that can be used to mark the positions for the soldiers and cannons. Therefore I have included twelve glyphs for these unencoded characters in the Private Use Area (PUA) at U+E000 through U+E00B.

Samples

BabelStone Xiangqi at 24 points showing board layout (not using the PUA box drawing characters)

BabelStone Xiangqi Colour at 24 points showing board layout (not using the PUA box drawing characters)

BabelStone Xiangqi at 24 points showing an empty board (using the PUA box drawing characters)

Font Characters

Xiangqi Symbols

Code Point	B & W	Colour	Character Name	Chinese Name
U+1FA60	🩠	🩠	XIANGQI RED GENERAL	hóng shuài 紅帥
U+1FA61	🩡	🩡	XIANGQI RED MANDARIN	hóng shì 紅仕
U+1FA62	🩢	🩢	XIANGQI RED ELEPHANT	hóng xiàng 紅相
U+1FA63	🩣	🩣	XIANGQI RED HORSE	hóng mǎ 紅馬
U+1FA64	🩤	🩤	XIANGQI RED CHARIOT	hóng jū 紅車
U+1FA65	🩥	🩥	XIANGQI RED CANNON	hóng pào 紅炮
U+1FA66	🩦	🩦	XIANGQI RED SOLDIER	hóng bīng 紅兵
U+1FA67	🩧	🩧	XIANGQI BLACK GENERAL	hēi jiàng 黑將
U+1FA68	🩨	🩨	XIANGQI BLACK MANDARIN	hēi shì 黑士
U+1FA69	🩩	🩩	XIANGQI BLACK ELEPHANT	hēi xiàng 黑象
U+1FA6A	🩪	🩪	XIANGQI BLACK HORSE	hēi mǎ 黑馬
U+1FA6B	🩫	🩫	XIANGQI BLACK CHARIOT	hēi jū 黑車
U+1FA6C	🩬	🩬	XIANGQI BLACK CANNON	hēi pào 黑砲
U+1FA6D	🩭	🩭	XIANGQI BLACK SOLDIER	hēi zú 黑卒

Box Drawing Characters

Code Point	Character	Character Name
U+2500	─	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL
U+2501	━	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY HORIZONTAL
U+2502	│	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL
U+2503	┃	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY VERTICAL
U+2504	┄	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT TRIPLE DASH HORIZONTAL
U+2505	┅	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY TRIPLE DASH HORIZONTAL
U+2506	┆	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT TRIPLE DASH VERTICAL
U+2507	┇	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY TRIPLE DASH VERTICAL
U+2508	┈	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT QUADRUPLE DASH HORIZONTAL
U+2509	┉	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY QUADRUPLE DASH HORIZONTAL
U+250A	┊	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT QUADRUPLE DASH VERTICAL
U+250B	┋	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY QUADRUPLE DASH VERTICAL
U+250C	┌	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND RIGHT
U+250D	┍	BOX DRAWINGS DOWN LIGHT AND RIGHT HEAVY
U+250E	┎	BOX DRAWINGS DOWN HEAVY AND RIGHT LIGHT
U+250F	┏	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY DOWN AND RIGHT
U+2510	┐	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND LEFT
U+2511	┑	BOX DRAWINGS DOWN LIGHT AND LEFT HEAVY
U+2512	┒	BOX DRAWINGS DOWN HEAVY AND LEFT LIGHT
U+2513	┓	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY DOWN AND LEFT
U+2514	└	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT UP AND RIGHT
U+2515	┕	BOX DRAWINGS UP LIGHT AND RIGHT HEAVY
U+2516	┖	BOX DRAWINGS UP HEAVY AND RIGHT LIGHT
U+2517	┗	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY UP AND RIGHT
U+2518	┘	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT UP AND LEFT
U+2519	┙	BOX DRAWINGS UP LIGHT AND LEFT HEAVY
U+251A	┚	BOX DRAWINGS UP HEAVY AND LEFT LIGHT
U+251B	┛	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY UP AND LEFT
U+251C	├	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL AND RIGHT
U+251D	┝	BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL LIGHT AND RIGHT HEAVY
U+251E	┞	BOX DRAWINGS UP HEAVY AND RIGHT DOWN LIGHT
U+251F	┟	BOX DRAWINGS DOWN HEAVY AND RIGHT UP LIGHT
U+2520	┠	BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL HEAVY AND RIGHT LIGHT
U+2521	┡	BOX DRAWINGS DOWN LIGHT AND RIGHT UP HEAVY
U+2522	┢	BOX DRAWINGS UP LIGHT AND RIGHT DOWN HEAVY
U+2523	┣	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY VERTICAL AND RIGHT
U+2524	┤	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL AND LEFT
U+2525	┥	BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL LIGHT AND LEFT HEAVY
U+2526	┦	BOX DRAWINGS UP HEAVY AND LEFT DOWN LIGHT
U+2527	┧	BOX DRAWINGS DOWN HEAVY AND LEFT UP LIGHT
U+2528	┨	BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL HEAVY AND LEFT LIGHT
U+2529	┩	BOX DRAWINGS DOWN LIGHT AND LEFT UP HEAVY
U+252A	┪	BOX DRAWINGS UP LIGHT AND LEFT DOWN HEAVY
U+252B	┫	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY VERTICAL AND LEFT
U+252C	┬	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND HORIZONTAL
U+252D	┭	BOX DRAWINGS LEFT HEAVY AND RIGHT DOWN LIGHT
U+252E	┮	BOX DRAWINGS RIGHT HEAVY AND LEFT DOWN LIGHT
U+252F	┯	BOX DRAWINGS DOWN LIGHT AND HORIZONTAL HEAVY
U+2530	┰	BOX DRAWINGS DOWN HEAVY AND HORIZONTAL LIGHT
U+2531	┱	BOX DRAWINGS RIGHT LIGHT AND LEFT DOWN HEAVY
U+2532	┲	BOX DRAWINGS LEFT LIGHT AND RIGHT DOWN HEAVY
U+2533	┳	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY DOWN AND HORIZONTAL
U+2534	┴	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT UP AND HORIZONTAL
U+2535	┵	BOX DRAWINGS LEFT HEAVY AND RIGHT UP LIGHT
U+2536	┶	BOX DRAWINGS RIGHT HEAVY AND LEFT UP LIGHT
U+2537	┷	BOX DRAWINGS UP LIGHT AND HORIZONTAL HEAVY
U+2538	┸	BOX DRAWINGS UP HEAVY AND HORIZONTAL LIGHT
U+2539	┹	BOX DRAWINGS RIGHT LIGHT AND LEFT UP HEAVY
U+253A	┺	BOX DRAWINGS LEFT LIGHT AND RIGHT UP HEAVY
U+253B	┻	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY UP AND HORIZONTAL
U+253C	┼	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL
U+253D	┽	BOX DRAWINGS LEFT HEAVY AND RIGHT VERTICAL LIGHT
U+253E	┾	BOX DRAWINGS RIGHT HEAVY AND LEFT VERTICAL LIGHT
U+253F	┿	BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL LIGHT AND HORIZONTAL HEAVY
U+2540	╀	BOX DRAWINGS UP HEAVY AND DOWN HORIZONTAL LIGHT
U+2541	╁	BOX DRAWINGS DOWN HEAVY AND UP HORIZONTAL LIGHT
U+2542	╂	BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL HEAVY AND HORIZONTAL LIGHT
U+2543	╃	BOX DRAWINGS LEFT UP HEAVY AND RIGHT DOWN LIGHT
U+2544	╄	BOX DRAWINGS RIGHT UP HEAVY AND LEFT DOWN LIGHT
U+2545	╅	BOX DRAWINGS LEFT DOWN HEAVY AND RIGHT UP LIGHT
U+2546	╆	BOX DRAWINGS RIGHT DOWN HEAVY AND LEFT UP LIGHT
U+2547	╇	BOX DRAWINGS DOWN LIGHT AND UP HORIZONTAL HEAVY
U+2548	╈	BOX DRAWINGS UP LIGHT AND DOWN HORIZONTAL HEAVY
U+2549	╉	BOX DRAWINGS RIGHT LIGHT AND LEFT VERTICAL HEAVY
U+254A	╊	BOX DRAWINGS LEFT LIGHT AND RIGHT VERTICAL HEAVY
U+254B	╋	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL
U+254C	╌	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOUBLE DASH HORIZONTAL
U+254D	╍	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY DOUBLE DASH HORIZONTAL
U+254E	╎	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOUBLE DASH VERTICAL
U+254F	╏	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY DOUBLE DASH VERTICAL
U+2550	═	BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE HORIZONTAL
U+2551	║	BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE VERTICAL
U+2552	╒	BOX DRAWINGS DOWN SINGLE AND RIGHT DOUBLE
U+2553	╓	BOX DRAWINGS DOWN DOUBLE AND RIGHT SINGLE
U+2554	╔	BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE DOWN AND RIGHT
U+2555	╕	BOX DRAWINGS DOWN SINGLE AND LEFT DOUBLE
U+2556	╖	BOX DRAWINGS DOWN DOUBLE AND LEFT SINGLE
U+2557	╗	BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE DOWN AND LEFT
U+2558	╘	BOX DRAWINGS UP SINGLE AND RIGHT DOUBLE
U+2559	╙	BOX DRAWINGS UP DOUBLE AND RIGHT SINGLE
U+255A	╚	BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE UP AND RIGHT
U+255B	╛	BOX DRAWINGS UP SINGLE AND LEFT DOUBLE
U+255C	╜	BOX DRAWINGS UP DOUBLE AND LEFT SINGLE
U+255D	╝	BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE UP AND LEFT
U+255E	╞	BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL SINGLE AND RIGHT DOUBLE
U+255F	╟	BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL DOUBLE AND RIGHT SINGLE
U+2560	╠	BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE VERTICAL AND RIGHT
U+2561	╡	BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL SINGLE AND LEFT DOUBLE
U+2562	╢	BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL DOUBLE AND LEFT SINGLE
U+2563	╣	BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE VERTICAL AND LEFT
U+2564	╤	BOX DRAWINGS DOWN SINGLE AND HORIZONTAL DOUBLE
U+2565	╥	BOX DRAWINGS DOWN DOUBLE AND HORIZONTAL SINGLE
U+2566	╦	BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE DOWN AND HORIZONTAL
U+2567	╧	BOX DRAWINGS UP SINGLE AND HORIZONTAL DOUBLE
U+2568	╨	BOX DRAWINGS UP DOUBLE AND HORIZONTAL SINGLE
U+2569	╩	BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE UP AND HORIZONTAL
U+256A	╪	BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL SINGLE AND HORIZONTAL DOUBLE
U+256B	╫	BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL DOUBLE AND HORIZONTAL SINGLE
U+256C	╬	BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL
U+256D	╭	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT ARC DOWN AND RIGHT
U+256E	╮	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT ARC DOWN AND LEFT
U+256F	╯	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT ARC UP AND LEFT
U+2570	╰	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT ARC UP AND RIGHT
U+2571	╱	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DIAGONAL UPPER RIGHT TO LOWER LEFT
U+2572	╲	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DIAGONAL UPPER LEFT TO LOWER RIGHT
U+2573	╳	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DIAGONAL CROSS
U+2574	╴	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT LEFT
U+2575	╵	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT UP
U+2576	╶	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT RIGHT
U+2577	╷	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN
U+2578	╸	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY LEFT
U+2579	╹	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY UP
U+257A	╺	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY RIGHT
U+257B	╻	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY DOWN
U+257C	╼	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT LEFT AND HEAVY RIGHT
U+257D	╽	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT UP AND HEAVY DOWN
U+257E	╾	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY LEFT AND LIGHT RIGHT
U+257F	╿	BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY UP AND LIGHT DOWN
U+E000	
U+E001	
U+E002	
U+E003	
U+E004	
U+E005	
U+E006	
U+E007	
U+E008	
U+E009	
U+E00A	
U+E00B	

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BabelStone Xiangqi is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which means you are free to use it for personal or commercial purposes, and to redistribute it by itself or as part of a free or commercial software package, just as long as you do not sell the font on its own. The license also allows you to modify the font in any way you like, as long as the modified font does not use "BabelStone" in its name. Please read the license for details.

For use on your computer or mobile device please download and install the TTF file. The WOFF and WOFF2 files are for web use only, and are not required by most users.

BabelStone Xiangqi

v. 11.000 (2018-06-09)

TTF file

WOFF file

WOFF2 file

BabelStone Xiangqi Colour

v. 11.001 (2021-11-01)