U+1FA0A "🨊" White Chess Queen Rotated Ninety Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA0A "🨊" White Chess Queen Rotated Ninety Degrees is a specialized symbol within the Chess Symbols block, representing the standard white queen piece in a chess set but turned on its side, rotated 90 degrees from its usual upright orientation. This rotation is typically used in chess diagrams or notation to indicate a specific pawn promotion or a temporary, non-standard board state where the piece's direction matters, such as in puzzle solutions or when annotating a move where the queen is placed in an unusual configuration. It is distinct from the ordinary "White Chess Queen" character (U+2655) and is intended for advanced chess software, textbooks, or digital displays where precise visual representation of rotated pieces is needed for clarity.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA0A
Version Added	12.0
Name	White Chess Queen 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 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE0A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA0A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude0a

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