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.

General Properties

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

Encodings

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