U+1FA52 "🩒" Black Chess Knight-Rook Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1FA52 "🩒" Black Chess Knight-Rook is a specialized symbol introduced in Unicode 12.0 under the Chess Symbols block, representing a hybrid chess piece that combines the movement capabilities of a knight and a rook, often used in the game of antichess or in variant chess problems. Its design features a distinct, merged silhouette that blends the horse head of a knight with the castle-like base of a rook, all rendered in a solid black fill. While not commonly found in standard chess sets, this character provides a precise typographic tool for digital chess notation, software interfaces, or puzzles that require this unconventional piece. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures consistent rendering across modern devices and platforms, supporting advanced chess enthusiasts and programmers in encoding game states without ambiguity.

General Properties

Code Point U+1FA52
Version Added 12.0
Name Black Chess Knight-Rook
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 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83E 0xDE52
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001FA52
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83e\ude52

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