U+1FA39 "🨹" Black Chess King Rotated Two Hundred Seventy Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA39 "🨹" Black Chess King Rotated Two Hundred Seventy Degrees is a specialized symbol belonging to the chess symbols block that depicts the standard black chess king piece visually rotated ninety degrees clockwise from the upright position, or equivalently two hundred seventy degrees counterclockwise from the upright orientation. This rotated variant is primarily used in chess notation and diagrams to indicate a specific piece orientation, often for annotating board positions, solving puzzles, or representing a rotated perspective in printed materials. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that this distinct graphical representation can be consistently displayed and transmitted across digital platforms, supporting the needs of chess enthusiasts and publishers who require precise piece renditions beyond the standard upright forms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA39
Version Added	12.0
Name	Black 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 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE39
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA39
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude39

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