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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]
🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Jun 13, 2005 07:11 PM PDT:
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.