U+1FA11 "🨑" Black Chess Rook Rotated Ninety Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA11 "🨑" Black Chess Rook Rotated Ninety Degrees is a symbol from the Chess Symbols block, included in Unicode version 12.0 released in 2019. It depicts a solid or filled black chess rook, specifically rotated a quarter turn clockwise from its standard upright orientation. This rotation is not a stylistic variant but a distinct glyph intended for use in specialized chess notation or diagrams, particularly for representing pieces on a board that have been tilted or oriented differently, often in puzzles, problem compositions, or when indicating piece movement or position in a non standard alignment. The character complements its rotated white counterpart and other rotated chess pieces, serving as a typographic tool for clarity in advanced chess documentation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA11
Version Added	12.0
Name	Black 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 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE11
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA11
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude11

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