U+1FA12 "🨒" Black Chess Bishop Rotated Ninety Degrees Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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U+1FA12 "🨒" Black Chess Bishop Rotated Ninety Degrees is a specialized chess symbol included in the Chess Symbols block, representing a black bishop turned on its side to indicate a changed orientation or a specific variant position on a chessboard. Unlike standard chess pieces used for regular play, this rotated character is typically employed in chess diagrams and notation systems to denote a piece that has been moved, captured, or repositioned in a non-standard way, often for instructional purposes or to illustrate board transformations. Its inclusion in Unicode enhances the ability to create precise, machine-readable chess documentation without relying on graphic images.

General Properties

Code Point
U+1FA12
Name
Black Chess Bishop Rotated Ninety Degrees

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x9F 0xA8 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD83E 0xDE12
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001FA12
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud83e\ude12