U+1FA31 "🨱" Black Chess Knight Rotated Two Hundred Twenty-Five Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA31 "🨱" Black Chess Knight Rotated Two Hundred Twenty-Five Degrees is a specialized symbol within the Chess Symbols block, representing a chess knight piece that has been rotated to face the bottom-left diagonal. It is part of a larger set of oriented chess pieces designed for use in chess notation, diagrams, or digital displays where board orientation or piece position relative to the player is critical, such as in instructions or puzzles. This distinct rotation, a 225 degree turn from the standard upright knight, gives the symbol a clear visual directionality while maintaining the recognizable silhouette of a knight’s head and mane.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA31
Version Added	12.0
Name	Black 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 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE31
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA31
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude31

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