U+1FA18 "🨘" Neutral Chess Bishop Rotated Ninety Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA18 "🨘" Neutral Chess Bishop Rotated Ninety Degrees is a specialized symbol within the Chess Symbols block, designed for use in chess notation and diagrams to represent a bishop with a neutral color or allegiance that has been rotated a quarter turn from its standard orientation. This rotation likely indicates a specific game state, such as a promoted piece or a variant rule where the piece's directionality matters, making it useful for annotating non-standard chess problems or software displays. It is part of a set of neutral chess pieces, which use a distinctive outline style to denote pieces that are not aligned with either the white or black side.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA18
Version Added	12.0
Name	Neutral 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 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE18
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA18
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude18

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