U+1FA52 "🩒" Black Chess Knight-Rook Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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
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