U+1FA45 "🩅" White Chess Knight Rotated Three Hundred Fifteen Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA45 "🩅" White Chess Knight Rotated Three Hundred Fifteen Degrees is a specialized symbol in the Chess Symbols block, representing a standard chess knight piece colored white but rotated 315 degrees, or equivalently 45 degrees clockwise from a vertical upright position. This rotation is atypical for standard chess notation, which normally depicts pieces in an upright orientation for board diagrams. However, the character may be used in rotated chess diagrams, decorative contexts, or symbolic representations where the piece's orientation conveys additional meaning, such as indicating a specific move direction or a non standard board perspective. It belongs to a set of rotated chess piece characters introduced to support more flexible and creative typographic chess displays.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA45
Version Added	12.0
Name	White Chess Knight Rotated Three Hundred Fifteen 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 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE45
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA45
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude45

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