U+1FA0B "🨋" White Chess Rook Rotated Ninety Degrees Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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U+1FA0B "🨋" White Chess Rook Rotated Ninety Degrees is a specialized symbol within the Chess Symbols block, representing a white rook that has been rotated by a quarter turn to the right. This rotated orientation is primarily used in chess variant notation, particularly for diagrams or puzzles that require a rook to be shown on its side, often to indicate a specific piece movement, such as a promotion or a change in status, or to differentiate it from a standard upright rook in compact board visualizations. It is distinct from the typical left-facing or right-facing rook symbols and is encoded for use in digital chess applications, text displays, and typesetting where precise piece orientation is necessary for clarity in game analysis or instructions.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+1FA0B
Name
White Chess Rook Rotated Ninety Degrees

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x9F 0xA8 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD83E 0xDE0B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001FA0B
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud83e\ude0b