U+1FA21 "🨡" White Chess Turned Bishop Unicode Character

U+1FA21 "🨡" White Chess Turned Bishop is a specialized symbol within the chess symbols block, representing a white bishop that has been rotated or turned, distinguishing it from the standard upright white bishop glyph. This character is part of the larger set of chess notation symbols introduced in Unicode 12.0, designed to support detailed representation of chess boards and moves, particularly for diagrams or instructional materials where the orientation of a piece may be significant, such as indicating a rotated board or a specific position in a puzzle. Its appearance as a turned piece allows for precise visual communication in digital chess contexts, complementing the standard chess pieces already encoded.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA21
Version Added	12.0
Name	White Chess Turned Bishop
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 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE21
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA21
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude21

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