U+1FA6C "🩬" Xiangqi Black Cannon Unicode Character

U+1FA6C "🩬" Xiangqi Black Cannon is a specific symbol representing the black cannon piece from the Chinese board game Xiangqi, also known as Chinese chess. This character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of version 14.0 in 2021, belonging to the Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement block, though it is primarily used in digital representations of Xiangqi gameplay. The cannon is a powerful piece that moves like a chariot but must jump over exactly one piece to capture an opponent's piece, and the black version indicates it is used by the second player in the traditional two player game.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA6C
Version Added	11.0
Name	Xiangqi Black Cannon
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 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE6C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA6C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude6c

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