U+1FA66 "🩦" Xiangqi Red Soldier Unicode Character

U+1FA66 "🩦" Xiangqi Red Soldier is a specific symbol from the Xiangqi Red game pieces block, representing one of the five soldier or pawn pieces in the Chinese board game Xiangqi, also known as Chinese chess. In the game, this piece, which is traditionally red, can move only one space forward before crossing the river, after which it gains the ability to move one space sideways as well, reflecting its role as a advancing foot soldier. This character was added to the Unicode Standard in version 11.0 in 2018 as part of an effort to encode Xiangqi game symbols, allowing for digital representation and use in text and software applications.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA66
Version Added	11.0
Name	Xiangqi Red Soldier
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 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE66
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA66
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude66

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