U+1FA03 "🨃" Neutral Chess Bishop Unicode Character

U+1FA03 "🨃" Neutral Chess Bishop is a typographical symbol from the Chess Symbols block, specifically designed for neutral chess pieces that can be used by either player in games like Chess960 or variant problems. It features a stylized bishop with a distinctive neutral design, typically rendered in outline or two tone to indicate that the piece does not belong to either White or Black. This character allows chess composers and digital game interfaces to represent pieces with uncertain or shared allegiance, making it a useful tool for encoding complex board states in plain text or online platforms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA03
Version Added	12.0
Name	Neutral Chess Bishop
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 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE03
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA03
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude03

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