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king

piece from the board game chess
Thing general Q138
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Summary

king ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,028 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: non-pawn chess piece[2]
  • Part of: chess terminology[3]
  • Commons category: Chess kings[4]
  • Unicode character: ♔[5], ♚[6]
  • Sport: chess[7]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://chess.stackexchange.com/tags/kings[9]
  • Short name: K[10], M[11], Ş[12], Ա[13], E[14], Ц[15], R[16], К[17], Н[18], Кр[19], Kр[20], T[21]
  • Portable Game Notation: K[22]

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Influence

Things named for king include king's graph[23], a mathematical chess problem[24].

Why It Matters

king has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] king is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Entities named for king include king's graph[23], a mathematical chess problem[24].

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18w ago · Xezbeth · 2026-06-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Personality database profile id → 51940
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Personality database profile id: 51940, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/251133609|King (#251133609)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7421|Personality Data"
  2. 23w ago · Madamebiblio · 2026-05-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    Part of → chess terminology
    Aliases → —
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|1 */ Commons category: Chess kings, Cleanup: remove wikimedia refs ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
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