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A disc bearing the general or marshal character.
Also known as: Jiang piece, Shuai piece, Xiangqi king
The xiangqi general, confined to the palace and unable to face the opposing general along an open file.
Is confined to the nine points of the palace and cannot leave it.
Contexts: History
Cannot face the opposing general along a file with no piece between them, a rule that makes the two generals act on each other at a distance without either being able to move there.
Contexts: History
Related forms that are not treated as separate canonical symbols — see our variant rules.
Red general (帥)
Red plays 帥 (shuài) and black plays 將 (jiàng). The two characters name the same general, which moves and captures identically on either side — the glyph says whose piece it is, not what it does. The two are read differently — shuài against jiàng — so a spoken move names the side as well as the piece.
Black general (將)
Red plays 帥 (shuài) and black plays 將 (jiàng). The two characters name the same general, which moves and captures identically on either side — the glyph says whose piece it is, not what it does. The two are read differently — shuài against jiàng — so a spoken move names the side as well as the piece.
A flat circle of wood or plastic carrying a single glyph, the glyph differing between the two sides for one piece.