U+1FA08 "🨈" Neutral Chess Knight Rotated Forty-Five Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA08 "🨈" Neutral Chess Knight Rotated Forty-Five Degrees is a specialized symbol intended for use in chess notation and diagramming, particularly when representing a neutral piece that does not belong to either player, such as in chess problems or variant games. Its name describes its appearance: a standard chess knight icon rotated by 45 degrees to visually distinguish it from white or black knights. Originally encoded in Unicode 12.0 as part of the Chess Symbols block, this character helps clarify board positions where a piece's ownership is ambiguous or irrelevant, often appearing in contexts like puzzles, fairy chess, or software interfaces that require a neutral playing piece.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA08
Version Added	12.0
Name	Neutral 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 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE08
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA08
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude08

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