U+1FA3B "🨻" Black Chess Rook Rotated Two Hundred Seventy Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA3B "🨻" Black Chess Rook Rotated Two Hundred Seventy Degrees is a typographic symbol that represents a chess rook piece, specifically colored black, but displayed with its standard orientation turned by 270 degrees, which is equivalent to a 90 degree clockwise rotation. This character belongs to the Chess Symbols block, part of a set designed to provide rotated variants of standard chess pieces for use in diagrams, puzzles, or notation systems where a non-upright orientation is required to indicate a special state, such as a piece that has moved or a captured piece. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for consistent digital representation across platforms, though actual rendering depends on the font and system support for these specialized symbols.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA3B
Version Added	12.0
Name	Black Chess Rook 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 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE3B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA3B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude3b

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