U+1FA17 "🨗" Neutral Chess Rook Rotated Ninety Degrees Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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U+1FA17 "🨗" Neutral Chess Rook Rotated Ninety Degrees is a specialized symbol within the Chess Symbols block, designed to represent a chess rook that is not aligned with either player's standard orientation but instead turned sideways. This character is typically used in chess notation or diagrams to indicate a neutral or rotated rook piece, often for variant rules or to show a piece's unconventional alignment on the board. Its inclusion in Unicode helps standardize the representation of such atypical chess configurations across digital platforms and documents, ensuring consistent display in puzzles, teaching materials, or software interfaces that require non-standard piece orientations.

General Properties

Code Point
U+1FA17
Name
Neutral 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 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD83E 0xDE17
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001FA17
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud83e\ude17