U+1FA17 "🨗" Neutral Chess Rook Rotated Ninety Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA17 "🨗" Neutral Chess Rook Rotated Ninety Degrees is a specialized symbol within the Chess Symbols block, designed to represent a chess rook that is not aligned with either player's standard orientation but instead turned sideways. This character is typically used in chess notation or diagrams to indicate a neutral or rotated rook piece, often for variant rules or to show a piece's unconventional alignment on the board. Its inclusion in Unicode helps standardize the representation of such atypical chess configurations across digital platforms and documents, ensuring consistent display in puzzles, teaching materials, or software interfaces that require non-standard piece orientations.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA17
Version Added	12.0
Name	Neutral 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 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE17
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA17
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude17

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