U+1FA40 "🩀" Neutral Chess Queen Rotated Two Hundred Seventy Degrees Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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Source: Noto Sans Symbols 2 Source: Browser Default

U+1FA40 "🩀" Neutral Chess Queen Rotated Two Hundred Seventy Degrees is a specialized typographic symbol introduced as part of the Chess Symbols block in Unicode 12.0, designed to represent a chess queen in a neutral color, such as gray or outline, that has been rotated 270 degrees clockwise from its standard upright orientation. This character is primarily intended for use in digital chess notation, puzzles, or diagrams where the visual distinction of a rotated piece is needed to indicate a specific state, direction, or turn in gameplay, without implying the piece belongs to either the white or black set. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent rendering across platforms for chess enthusiasts, software developers, and linguists working with symbolic notation.

General Properties

Code Point
U+1FA40
Name
Neutral Chess Queen Rotated Two Hundred Seventy Degrees

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
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HTML Hex Encoding
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UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x9F 0xA9 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD83E 0xDE40
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001FA40
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud83e\ude40