U+1FA29 "🨩" Black Chess Turned Pawn Unicode Character

U+1FA29 "🨩" Black Chess Turned Pawn is a specialized symbol within the Chess Symbols block, representing a black pawn that has been rotated or turned, often used in chess notation or diagrams to indicate a promoted pawn or a specific directional movement in alternative chess variants. Its design depicts the standard pawn shape but oriented differently from the upright chess pieces, distinguishing it from the standard black pawn U+265F ♟. This character was added to the Unicode Standard in version 12.0 in 2019 to support more detailed representation of chess positions, particularly in contexts where piece orientation conveys strategic information or in puzzles requiring rotated symbols.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA29
Version Added	12.0
Name	Black 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 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE29
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA29
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude29

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