U+1FA1C "🨜" Black Chess Knight Rotated One Hundred Thirty-Five Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA1C "🨜" Black Chess Knight Rotated One Hundred Thirty-Five Degrees is a specialized symbol within the Chess Symbols block, used to represent a black knight piece turned at a 135-degree angle on a chessboard. Its primary role is in chess notation systems for recording or displaying boards where pieces are oriented differently to show moves, rotations, or specific board perspectives, such as in diagrams or puzzles. While it does not alter the core chess function of the knight piece, this rotation provides a clear visual cue for unusual positions or for designers creating precise chess-themed digital or printed materials.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA1C
Version Added	12.0
Name	Black Chess Knight Rotated One Hundred Thirty-Five 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 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE1C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA1C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude1c

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