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Traditional Chinese Pieces for Chinese Chess and Variants. Icons of pieces for Xiangqi and variants using a Chinese font.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

AndrewBofA wrote on Fri, Jul 12, 2002 01:04 AM UTC:Good ★★★★

Clear images of the Korean pieces - useful for identification, and with explanation of why each symbol was chosen. Tightly written. The downloadable file is also useful. Thank you for your time and effort.

(zzo38) A. Black wrote on Mon, Jun 13, 2005 03:47 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

It's good, but it needs a CASTLE icon for <a href='/xiangqivariants.dir/para-xiangqi.html'>Para-Xiang-qi</a>, which I invented. I prefer traditional Chinese images, but you should probably make both traditional and GB, and maybe also iconographic as well.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Jun 14, 2005 01:56 AM UTC:

I have already made GB and iconographic images. They are featured on their
own pages, and two are listed in the 'See also:' section of this page.

http://www.chessvariants.org/graphics.dir/ichina/index.html

http://www.chessvariants.org/graphics.dir/gb/index.html

There are also these graphics:

http://www.chessvariants.org/graphics.dir/eurasian/

http://www.chessvariants.org/graphics.dir/westchinese/

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Jun 14, 2005 02:11 AM UTC:

It looks like the Chinese word for castle uses two characters, cheng + bao,
which wouldn't work as well as single character names do for pieces. Look
it up at http://zhongwen.com/ for confirmation.

(zzo38) A. Black wrote on Fri, Jun 17, 2005 04:27 PM UTC:

I have looked it up, I think 'cheng' would probably be a better choice (see <a href='http://zhongwen.com/d/171/d176.htm'>http://zhongwen.com/d/171/d176.htm</a> and the corresponging Unicode page, by clicking on the '+' sign next to the question mark), also <a href='http://zhongwen.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?yinghan=castle&framed=yes'>http://zhongwen.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?yinghan=castle&framed=yes</a>. You could make only 'cheng', or one of each, or just make a completely different character if you think it would improve it.<br><br>But I don't really care what you make, but I should have at least one icon for the castle in Para-Xiang-qi which can be used to play this game. Whichever icon is used, I would like it to be added to the Game Courier so I could make a Game Courier preset to play Para-Xiang-qi. Then whoever plays first together can see how this game actually works! (Of course I could use ASCII letters in the mean time, but if this is Xiang-qi, I would like to be able to use Chinese characters to play this game).

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Jun 19, 2005 07:32 PM UTC:

<P>By itself, cheng seems to mean city, which is very different in meaning from castle. In looking for near synonyms to castle, I found that tower can be represented by a single Chinese character. Either <A HREF='http://zhongwen.com/d/182/d240.htm'>ta</A> or <A HREF='http://zhongwen.com/d/188/d211.htm'>lou</A>. In Chess, the Rook (which is equivalent to the Chariot in Chinese Chess) is sometimes called a Castle and usually looks like a Tower. In some languages, the Rook is even known by the word for tower, such as torre in Spanish, tour in French, Toren in Dutch, and Turm in German.</P>

(zzo38) A. Black wrote on Tue, Jun 21, 2005 03:47 AM UTC:

OK, use the 'ta' (or 'lou' if you prefer) and please make a icon out of it and use X/x to represent it in Game Courier (so it will show up in my 'Para Xiang-qi' preset, which, by the way, should probably be indexed).

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