U+1FA62 "🩢" Xiangqi Red Elephant Unicode Character

U+1FA62 "🩢" Xiangqi Red Elephant is a specific symbol used in the Chinese board game Xiangqi, commonly known as Chinese chess, where it represents the red side's elephant piece. In the game, the elephant moves exactly two points diagonally and cannot cross the river that divides the board, serving a primarily defensive role within its own territory. This character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Symbols for Legacy Computing supplement, allowing for digital representation of traditional Xiangqi gameplay in text and software applications.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA62
Version Added	11.0
Name	Xiangqi Red Elephant
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 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE62
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA62
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude62

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	Ideographic
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