U+1FA2E "🨮" Neutral Chess Turned Knight Unicode Character

U+1FA2E "🨮" Neutral Chess Turned Knight is a specialized symbol introduced into the Unicode Standard as part of the Chess Symbols block, designed to represent a chess piece in a state of neutrality or ambiguity, specifically a knight that has been rotated 45 degrees from its standard orientation. This character supports textual representation and digital processing of chess diagrams and notations where the traditional black or white assignment is intentionally absent, such as in puzzles, variant games, or instructional materials that require a neutral piece. It is not commonly found in standard fonts but is included in symbol-rich typefaces like Segoe UI Symbol, allowing for precise, unambiguous communication in electronic documents and software related to chess study and analysis.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA2E
Version Added	12.0
Name	Neutral Chess Turned Knight
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 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE2E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA2E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude2e

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