of an elephant. In time, the elephant disappeared and only the tower was used as the piece. In the West, the rook is almost universally represented as a crenellated turret. The piece is called torre ("tower") in Italian, Portuguese, Catalan and Spanish; tour in French; toren in Dutch; Turm in German; torn in Swedish; and torni in Finnish. In Hungarian it is bástya ("bastion") and in Hebrew it is called צריח (, meaning "turret"). In the British Museum's collection of the medieval Lewis chess pieces the rooks appear as stern warders, or wild-eyed berserker warriors. Rooks usually are similar in appearance to small castles; thus, a rook is sometimes called a "castle", though modern chess literature rarely, if ever, uses this term. In some languages the rook is called a ship: Thai เรือ (), Armenian Նավակ (), Russian ладья (), Javanese ꦥꦿꦲꦸ (). This may be because of the use of an Arabic style V-shaped rook piece, which some may have mistaken for a ship. It is possible that the rendition comes from Sanskrit (ship); however, no chaturanga pieces were ever called a . Murray argued that the Javanese could not visualize a chariot moving through the jungles in sweeping fashion as the rook. The only vehicle that moved in straight fashion was ship, thus they replaced it with prahu. Murray, however, did not give an explanation of why the Russians call the piece a "ship". Peter Tyson suggests that there is a correlation between the name of the piece and the word rukh, a mythical giant bird of prey from Persian mythology. In South Slavic languages, it is called the "cannon" (Топ, Romanised top). In Kannada, it is known as ಆನೆ (āāne), meaning "elephant". This is unusual, as the term for elephant is in many other languages applied to the bishop. Name translations Heraldry Chess rooks frequently occur as heraldic charges. Heraldic rooks are usually shown as they looked in medieval chess sets, with the usual battlements replaced by two outward-curving horns. They occur in arms from around the 13th century onwards. In Canadian heraldry, the chess rook is the cadency mark of a fifth daughter. Unicode Unicode defines two codepoints for rook: ♖ U+2656 White Chess Rook (HTML &#9814;) ♜ U+265C Black Chess Rook (HTML &#9820;) See also Rook and pawn versus rook endgame Tarrasch rule – rooks belong behind passed pawns Lucena position – winning position Philidor