U+1FA13 "🨓" Black Chess Knight Rotated Ninety Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA13 "🨓" Black Chess Knight Rotated Ninety Degrees is a specialized symbol within the Chess Symbols block, used to represent a standard chess knight piece in black that has been rotated a quarter turn clockwise from its usual upright orientation. This rotation is typically employed in chess diagrams or digital notation to indicate a piece that has moved sideways or to depict unusual board orientations, such as when analyzing positions from a different player’s perspective. Despite its unique appearance, it carries the same functional value as a standard black knight in gameplay, serving visual or instructional purposes without altering the piece’s movement rules.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA13
Version Added	12.0
Name	Black Chess Knight 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 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE13
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA13
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude13

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