U+1FA09 "🨉" White Chess King Rotated Ninety Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA09 "🨉" White Chess King Rotated Ninety Degrees is a specialized chess symbol included in the Chess Symbols block, representing the standard white king piece rotated a quarter turn clockwise from its usual upright orientation. This rotation is used to indicate a specific transformation or condition in certain chess variant notations, such as Shogi-related problem compositions or diagrams where rotated pieces denote a change in movement rules or a flipped board perspective. It appears as a distinctive, abstract shape that maintains the classic crown-like design of a chess king but set at a 90-degree angle, allowing it to be clearly distinguished from other rotated or standard chess piece characters in digital text and formatting.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA09
Version Added	12.0
Name	White Chess King Rotated Ninety 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 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE09
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA09
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude09

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