U+1FA6A "🩪" Xiangqi Black Horse Unicode Character

U+1FA6A "🩪" Xiangqi Black Horse is a specific glyph within the Unicode standard's Symbols for Legacy Computing supplement, representing the black horse piece used in the Chinese board game Xiangqi, also known as Chinese chess. Like the red horse counterpart in the same block, this symbol is part of a collection designed to encode the traditional game pieces for digital text and historical computing environments, where the horse piece moves in an L-shape pattern similar to the knight in Western chess but is subject to blocking rules. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that players and historians can accurately represent the game in plain text without relying on images, preserving the cultural and strategic heritage of this ancient two-player contest.