U+1FA23 "🨣" White Chess Turned Pawn Unicode Character

U+1FA23 "🨣" White Chess Turned Pawn is a specialized symbol found in the Chess Symbols block, depicting a standard chess pawn piece that has been rotated 180 degrees from its usual upright position. This inverted representation is often used to indicate a pawn that has been captured, promoted, or moved in a non-standard way within certain chess notation systems, or to distinguish a pawn that has crossed the board from a traditional starting pawn. While it resembles a standard pawn, its turned orientation carries specific graphical or instructional meaning, making it useful in annotated chess diagrams or for representing uncommon game states.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA23
Version Added	12.0
Name	White Chess Turned Pawn
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 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE23
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA23
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude23

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