it is still known as "elephant" (e.g. Russian ). In South Slavic languages it is usually known as lovac, meaning "hunter", or laufer, taken from the German name for the same piece (laufer is also a co-official Polish name for the piece alongside goniec). An alternative name for bishop in Russian is "officer" (); it is also called () in Greek, () in Belarusian and oficeri in Albanian. In Mongolian and several Indian languages it is called the "camel". In Lithuanian it is the , a kind of military commander in medieval Lithuania. In Latvia it is known as , a term for the wooden handle part of some firearms. Name translations Unicode Unicode defines two codepoints for bishop: ♗ U+2657 White Chess Bishop (HTML &#9815;) ♝ U+265D Black Chess Bishop (HTML &#9821;) See also Notes References External links Piececlopedia: Bishop by Fergus Duniho and Hans Bodlaender, The Chess Variant Pages Chess pieces