U+1FA27 "🨧" Black Chess Turned Bishop Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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Source: Noto Sans Symbols 2 Source: Browser Default

U+1FA27 "🨧" Black Chess Turned Bishop is a specialized symbol that represents a rotated or "turned" black chess bishop, used in chess notation and diagrams to indicate a piece that has moved or is part of a specific puzzle or variant. It is not a standard game piece but rather a typographical aid for illustrating board positions or recording unusual transformations in chess problems, such as promoted bishops or flipped orientations in certain chess variants like Fischer Random. This character belongs to the "Chess Symbols" block in Unicode, which provides a comprehensive set of pieces for both colors in standard and turned forms to support digital chess applications, textbooks, and graphical displays. Its visual appearance shows a black bishop silhouette tilted or reversed from its standard upright position, clarifying its distinct purpose in formal chess contexts.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x9F 0xA8 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD83E 0xDE27
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001FA27
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud83e\ude27