U+1FA46 "🩆" Black Chess Knight Rotated Three Hundred Fifteen Degrees Unicode Character

U+1FA46 "🩆" Black Chess Knight Rotated Three Hundred Fifteen Degrees is a specific symbol found in the Symbols for Legacy Computing supplement block, introduced in Unicode version 13.0 in 2020. It represents a standard chess knight piece, colored black or filled, that has been rotated 315 degrees clockwise from its default upright position, making it appear oriented diagonally toward the bottom right or top left depending on perspective. This character is part of a set of rotated chess pieces designed for use in diagrams, puzzles, or grid based games where precise orientation of the knight is required, though it is rarely used in common text or digital communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA46
Version Added	12.0
Name	Black 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 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE46
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA46
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude46

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