U+1FA3F "🨿" Neutral Chess King Rotated Two Hundred Seventy Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA3F "🨿" Neutral Chess King Rotated Two Hundred Seventy Degrees is a symbol from the Chess Symbols block, specifically designed for use in chess notation and diagrams to represent a neutral or unaligned king piece that has been rotated 270 degrees clockwise from its standard upright orientation. Unlike traditional chess pieces that belong to either black or white, this neutral king signifies a piece that does not belong to either side, often used in variant chess puzzles or abstract game contexts. The rotation by 270 degrees, equivalent to a quarter turn counterclockwise, visually distinguishes it from standard neutral or colored kings, providing a unique glyph for specialized notation systems. Its inclusion in Unicode supports digital representation of non standard chess problems and instructional materials where piece orientation carries specific meaning.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA3F
Version Added	12.0
Name	Neutral 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 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE3F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA3F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude3f

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