U+1FA00 "🨀" Neutral Chess King Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1FA00 "🨀" Neutral Chess King is part of the Chess Symbols block, added in Unicode version 12.0 in 2019 specifically to support neutral, non-aligned, or fairy chess pieces used in variant chess games. Its design depicts a stylized king, but unlike the standard black or white king symbols, it is rendered in a neutral outline or hollow style, often with diagonal hatching or a distinct pattern to indicate no side affiliation. This character is primarily utilized in chess notation and diagrams for problems or variants that involve kings belonging to a third or neutral force, such as in chess puzzles with multiple players or impartial rulesets. Its inclusion helps bridge the gap between traditional chess symbols and the needs of modern chess composition communities.

General Properties

Code Point U+1FA00
Version Added 12.0
Name Neutral Chess King
Block Chess Symbols
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 🨀
HTML Hex Encoding 🨀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9F 0xA8 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83E 0xDE00
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001FA00
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83e\ude00

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 Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other