U+1FA1A "🨚" Neutral Chess Pawn Rotated Ninety Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA1A "🨚" Neutral Chess Pawn Rotated Ninety Degrees is a specialized symbol within the Chess Symbols block, designed to represent a chess pawn that has been turned on its side or rotated to indicate a neutral or non-aligned piece, often used in specific chess variant notations or diagramming conventions. Its tilted orientation distinguishes it from the standard upright pawn symbol, providing a visual cue that the piece is not part of either player’s standard set. This character is part of a broader collection of rotated chess pieces introduced in Unicode 11.0, intended to support detailed chess composition and analysis software where orientation carries meaning.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA1A
Version Added	12.0
Name	Neutral Chess Pawn 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 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE1A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA1A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude1a

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