U+1FA33 "🨳" White Chess King Rotated Two Hundred Seventy Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA33 "🨳" White Chess King Rotated Two Hundred Seventy Degrees is a specialized symbol within the Chess Symbols block, designed to represent a standard chess king piece that has been rotated 270 degrees clockwise from its usual upright position. This character is part of a larger set of rotated chess piece glyphs introduced to support diagrams and notations for chess puzzles, variants, or instructional materials where piece orientation conveys specific information, such as a piece that has moved, changed status, or is shown from a nonstandard perspective. Unlike the standard white chess king (U+2654), the rotated version retains the same iconic cross-topped crown shape but is depicted with its base pointing toward the viewer's right and its top toward the left, offering a visual cue distinct from the upright piece.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA33
Version Added	12.0
Name	White Chess King Rotated Two Hundred Seventy 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 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE33
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA33
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude33

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