U+1FA53 "🩓" Black Chess Knight-Bishop Unicode Character

U+1FA53 "🩓" Black Chess Knight-Bishop is a specialized symbol within the Chess Symbols block, representing a composite chess piece that combines the movement capabilities of both a knight and a bishop, often used in variant chess games or for decorative notation. This character is typically rendered in a solid black or dark color to distinguish it from its white counterpart, and it serves to denote a unique hybrid piece that can leap like a knight and slide diagonally like a bishop. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital representation of nonstandard chess rules and enhances textual or graphical communication in chess-related contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA53
Version Added	12.0
Name	Black Chess Knight-Bishop
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 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE53
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA53
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude53

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