U+1FA04 "🨄" Neutral Chess Knight Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🨄
U+1FA04 "🨄" Neutral Chess Knight is a specialized symbol within the Symbols for Legacy Computing and Chess Symbols block, specifically designed to represent a chess knight piece that is neutral, meaning it is not assigned to either the white or black side. This character is distinct from standard chess piece emojis because it is intended for use in chess notation and diagrams where the piece's color or allegiance is irrelevant or deliberately unspecified, such as in puzzles, game analysis, or abstract board configurations. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that it can be displayed consistently across digital platforms that support the relevant font and encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FA04 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Neutral Chess Knight |
| 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 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDE04 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FA04 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\ude04 |
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 |