U+1FA6D "🩭" Xiangqi Black Soldier Unicode Character

U+1FA6D "🩭" Xiangqi Black Soldier is a graphical symbol intended for use in digital representations of the Chinese board game Xiangqi, also known as Chinese chess. This specific character represents one of the black side's infantry pieces, which in the game's traditional rules moves only one step forward before crossing the river and gains the ability to move one step sideways afterward. It is part of the Unicode Symbols and Pictographs Extended A block, added to the standard to allow accurate, text-based rendering of Xiangqi game states without relying on platform specific images or fonts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1FA6D
Version Added	11.0
Name	Xiangqi Black 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 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83E 0xDE6D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001FA6D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83e\ude6d

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