U+1FA3C "🨼" Black Chess Bishop Rotated Two Hundred Seventy Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA3C "🨼" Black Chess Bishop Rotated Two Hundred Seventy Degrees is a specialized glyph within the Chess Symbols block, introduced in Unicode 12.0, representing a standard black chess bishop that has been rotated 270 degrees clockwise from its default upright orientation. This rotation is visually equivalent to turning the piece 90 degrees counterclockwise, and the character is typically used in chess notation software, diagram editors, or digital puzzle contexts where pieces must be displayed at specific angles to indicate movement, board orientation, or alternative game representations. It belongs to a set of rotated chess piece characters, including kings, queens, and rooks, that allow for precise symbolic depiction beyond the standard upright chess symbols.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA3C
Version Added	12.0
Name	Black Chess Bishop 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 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE3C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA3C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude3c

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