U+1FA40 "🩀" Neutral Chess Queen Rotated Two Hundred Seventy Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA40 "🩀" Neutral Chess Queen Rotated Two Hundred Seventy Degrees is a specialized typographic symbol introduced as part of the Chess Symbols block in Unicode 12.0, designed to represent a chess queen in a neutral color, such as gray or outline, that has been rotated 270 degrees clockwise from its standard upright orientation. This character is primarily intended for use in digital chess notation, puzzles, or diagrams where the visual distinction of a rotated piece is needed to indicate a specific state, direction, or turn in gameplay, without implying the piece belongs to either the white or black set. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent rendering across platforms for chess enthusiasts, software developers, and linguists working with symbolic notation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA40
Version Added	12.0
Name	Neutral Chess Queen 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 0xA9 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE40
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA40
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude40

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