U+1CCCA "𜳊" Upper Left Quadrant Chess Knight Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1CCCA "𜳊" Upper Left Quadrant Chess Knight is a relatively recent addition to the Unicode Standard, belonging to the "Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement" block, and it represents a single knight chess piece specifically positioned in the upper left quadrant of a display cell. Unlike the standard chess symbols found in the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block, this character is part of a larger system of quadrant-based glyphs designed for retro computing, terminal graphics, and mosaic-style text displays where each character cell can be subdivided. It allows for the creation of grid-based chess diagrams or game interfaces using textual characters without requiring graphical images, making it useful for legacy system emulation, chiptune-inspired art, or text-mode applications that rely on fine-grained positional symbols. However, as of early 2025, this character remains unsupported by most common fonts and operating systems, and will generally appear as a missing glyph or blank space unl

General Properties

Code Point U+1CCCA
Version Added 16.0
Name Upper Left Quadrant Chess Knight
Block Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𜳊
HTML Hex Encoding 𜳊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9C 0xB3 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD833 0xDCCA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001CCCA
C/C++/Java Escape \ud833\udcca

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other