U+1FA27 "🨧" Black Chess Turned Bishop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1FA27 "🨧" Black Chess Turned Bishop is a specialized symbol that represents a rotated or "turned" black chess bishop, used in chess notation and diagrams to indicate a piece that has moved or is part of a specific puzzle or variant. It is not a standard game piece but rather a typographical aid for illustrating board positions or recording unusual transformations in chess problems, such as promoted bishops or flipped orientations in certain chess variants like Fischer Random. This character belongs to the "Chess Symbols" block in Unicode, which provides a comprehensive set of pieces for both colors in standard and turned forms to support digital chess applications, textbooks, and graphical displays. Its visual appearance shows a black bishop silhouette tilted or reversed from its standard upright position, clarifying its distinct purpose in formal chess contexts.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
🨧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
🨧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x9F 0xA8 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD83E 0xDE27 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0001FA27 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud83e\ude27 |
Unicode Properties