U+1FA05 "🨅" Neutral Chess Pawn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🨅
U+1FA05 "🨅" Neutral Chess Pawn is a typographic symbol designed for use in chess notation and diagramming, representing a pawn that belongs to no specific side or is considered neutral, distinct from the traditional white and black pawn characters. It was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Chess Symbols block in version 12.0, released in 2019, to support more nuanced representation in game records, puzzles, and digital chess applications where the color or team assignment is ambiguous or intentionally omitted. This character appears as a stylized, typically monochrome pawn shape, enabling clear differentiation from the standard white and black pawn symbols in contexts like problem sets or neutral piece analysis.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FA05 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Neutral Chess Pawn |
| 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 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDE05 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FA05 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\ude05 |
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 |