U+1FA54 "🩔" White Chess Ferz Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🩔
U+1FA54 "🩔" White Chess Ferz is a specialized symbol used in chess notation to represent a piece known as the ferz, which historically originated from the Persian game of shatranj and moves one square diagonally in any direction. This character belongs to the Chess Symbols block, introduced in Unicode 11.0 in 2018 to expand representation of chess variants, where the ferz is often considered a weaker predecessor to the modern queen. As a white piece, it is typically depicted as a stylized icon resembling a small cross or crown, and it is used in digital contexts for recording games that involve historical or alternative chess rulesets.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FA54 |
| Version Added | 17.0 |
| Name | White Chess Ferz |
| 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 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDE54 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FA54 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\ude54 |
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 |