What 🨤 means
The surrounding problem determines any special role.
Fairy chess adds new or altered pieces to ordinary chess. A turned queen may stand for a grasshopper, a piece that leaps over another piece, and a turned knight for a nightrider, which repeats a knight's move in one direction; the turned king has no fixed counterpart. In the era of metal type, printers could turn cast-metal chess-piece sorts—small raised metal blocks used in printing—upside down to print symbols for chess problems and commentary.
Display is conditional on font coverage: a font without this glyph may show a box or fallback mark.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 🨤 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 🨤
- Search it as
- turned king · black turned king · fairy chess · chess symbol · upside down king · heterodox chess
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🨤\1FA24Codes and encoding1 code points
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