What 🩐 means
It is the bishop-and-knight compound. Variant chess changes standard rules; this piece combines diagonal sliding with a knight’s jump. Depending on the tradition, it is called a princess, archbishop, or cardinal.
Pietro Carrera’s 1617 variant called this piece the centaur. Capablanca chess helped spread archbishop; chess problems often use princess. A font may draw a mitre or biretta, both church hats, for its bishop-like shape.
Specialist notation for variant chess and chess problems.
In casual chat, give its name or move set.
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 🩐 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 🩐
- Also called
- princess · archbishop · cardinal
- Search it as
- princess chess · archbishop chess · bishop knight · Capablanca chess
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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