U+1FA63 "🩣" Xiangqi Red Horse Unicode Character

U+1FA63 "🩣" Xiangqi Red Horse is a symbol representing one of the pieces in the Chinese board game Xiangqi, also known as Chinese chess. This specific character depicts the red horse, which moves in a pattern similar to a knight in Western chess, advancing two steps in one direction and then one step perpendicularly, but is blocked if another piece occupies the intersecting point immediately adjacent to its starting position. Introduced in Unicode version 11.0 as part of the Chess Symbols block, this character is used for digital representation of the game, maintaining a distinct visual design to differentiate it from its black counterpart and other pieces on the board.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA63
Version Added	11.0
Name	Xiangqi Red Horse
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 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE63
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA63
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude63

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