U+1FA30 "🨰" White Chess Knight Rotated Two Hundred Twenty-Five Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA30 "🨰" White Chess Knight Rotated Two Hundred Twenty-Five Degrees is a specialized typographic symbol belonging to the "Chess Symbols" block of Unicode, included in version 11.0. It represents a standard white chess knight piece, visually identical in shape to the regular White Chess Knight (U+2658), but rotated 225 degrees counterclockwise from its typical upright orientation. This rotation is used primarily in chess notation and diagram annotation to indicate a specific directional movement or to provide clarity in complex puzzles and problem compositions, rather than for general gameplay. The character's design ensures compatibility across digital platforms for chess enthusiasts and publishers.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA30
Version Added	12.0
Name	White Chess Knight Rotated Two Hundred Twenty-Five Degrees
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 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE30
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA30
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude30

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