U+1FA38 "🨸" White Chess Pawn Rotated Two Hundred Seventy Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA38 "🨸" White Chess Pawn Rotated Two Hundred Seventy Degrees is a specialized symbol from the Chess Symbols block, representing a standard white chess pawn that has been rotated 270 degrees clockwise from its typical upright orientation. This rotation places the pawn sideways, with its head pointing to the left and its base to the right, distinguishing it from the standard upright pawn (U+265F) and its 90 and 180 degree rotated counterparts. It is primarily used in chess notation or diagram software to indicate a specific board orientation, such as when a game is rotated for a particular player's perspective, or to denote a pawn that has been moved or promoted in a non standard visual layout.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA38
Version Added	12.0
Name	White Chess Pawn 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 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE38
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA38
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude38

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