U+1FA26 "🨦" Black Chess Turned Rook Unicode Character

U+1FA26 "🨦" Black Chess Turned Rook is a symbol belonging to the Chess Symbols block, specifically representing a black rook that has been rotated or turned 180 degrees on its side. This orientation distinguishes it from the standard upright black rook and is typically used in chess diagrams and notation to indicate a promoted rook that originated from a pawn, or to denote a specific positional or thematic variant in chess problems and puzzles. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for consistent digital representation across platforms and applications, facilitating the precise documentation of chess games and compositions without relying on specialized fonts or images.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA26
Version Added	12.0
Name	Black Chess Turned Rook
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 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE26
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA26
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude26

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