U+1FA19 "🨙" Neutral Chess Knight Rotated Ninety Degrees Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🨙
U+1FA19 "🨙" Neutral Chess Knight Rotated Ninety Degrees is part of the Chess Symbols block and represents a chess knight piece that is neutral in color and orientation, rotated by a quarter turn from its standard upright position. This specific glyph is used in specialized chess notation and diagramming, particularly for variant chess problems, puzzles, or instructional materials where a non-standard rotation indicates a unique rule, piece identity, or board orientation that differs from conventional play. Its design allows compositors and digital chess editors to convey spatial relationships or piece modifications clearly without relying on text descriptions, making it a precise tool for advanced chess documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FA19 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Neutral 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 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDE19 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FA19 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\ude19 |
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 |