U+1FA12 "🨒" Black Chess Bishop Rotated Ninety Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA12 "🨒" Black Chess Bishop Rotated Ninety Degrees is a specialized chess symbol included in the Chess Symbols block, representing a black bishop turned on its side to indicate a changed orientation or a specific variant position on a chessboard. Unlike standard chess pieces used for regular play, this rotated character is typically employed in chess diagrams and notation systems to denote a piece that has been moved, captured, or repositioned in a non-standard way, often for instructional purposes or to illustrate board transformations. Its inclusion in Unicode enhances the ability to create precise, machine-readable chess documentation without relying on graphic images.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA12
Version Added	12.0
Name	Black Chess Bishop 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 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE12
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA12
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude12

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