U+1FA06 "🨆" White Chess Knight Rotated Forty-Five Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA06 "🨆" White Chess Knight Rotated Forty-Five Degrees is a specialized symbol within the Chess Symbols block, depicting a standard white chess knight piece tilted at a 45 degree angle. This rotated variant was added to Unicode specifically for use in chess notation and diagramming software, allowing for more precise representation of piece orientations on a rotated board or for highlighting specific tactical moves. It serves as a functional tool for annotating games or puzzles where the standard upright knight symbol may not convey the required positional nuance.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA06
Version Added	12.0
Name	White Chess Knight Rotated Forty-Five Degrees
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 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE06
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA06
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude06

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