U+1FA4A "🩊" Neutral Chess Equihopper Unicode Character

U+1FA4A "🩊" Neutral Chess Equihopper is a specialized symbol introduced in Unicode 14.0 as part of the Chess Symbols block, designed for use in chess notation and problem composition. This character represents a neutral piece that moves like an equihopper, which in fairy chess is a hopper piece that moves along a straight line over an obstacle (the hurdle) to land on any square exactly twice the distance from that obstacle, maintaining the same direction. The "neutral" designation indicates that this equihopper can be captured or used by either player, adding a strategic element to variant chess puzzles and games.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA4A
Version Added	12.0
Name	Neutral Chess Equihopper
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 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE4A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA4A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude4a

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