U+1FA08 "🨈" Neutral Chess Knight Rotated Forty-Five Degrees Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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Source: Noto Sans Symbols 2 Source: Browser Default

U+1FA08 "🨈" Neutral Chess Knight Rotated Forty-Five Degrees is a specialized symbol intended for use in chess notation and diagramming, particularly when representing a neutral piece that does not belong to either player, such as in chess problems or variant games. Its name describes its appearance: a standard chess knight icon rotated by 45 degrees to visually distinguish it from white or black knights. Originally encoded in Unicode 12.0 as part of the Chess Symbols block, this character helps clarify board positions where a piece's ownership is ambiguous or irrelevant, often appearing in contexts like puzzles, fairy chess, or software interfaces that require a neutral playing piece.

General Properties

Code Point
U+1FA08
Name
Neutral Chess Knight Rotated Forty-Five Degrees

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x9F 0xA8 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD83E 0xDE08
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001FA08
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud83e\ude08