U+1FA0B "🨋" White Chess Rook Rotated Ninety Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA0B "🨋" White Chess Rook Rotated Ninety Degrees is a specialized symbol within the Chess Symbols block, representing a white rook that has been rotated by a quarter turn to the right. This rotated orientation is primarily used in chess variant notation, particularly for diagrams or puzzles that require a rook to be shown on its side, often to indicate a specific piece movement, such as a promotion or a change in status, or to differentiate it from a standard upright rook in compact board visualizations. It is distinct from the typical left-facing or right-facing rook symbols and is encoded for use in digital chess applications, text displays, and typesetting where precise piece orientation is necessary for clarity in game analysis or instructions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA0B
Version Added	12.0
Name	White Chess Rook 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 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE0B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA0B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude0b

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