What 🨨 means
It marks a black nightrider, not the ordinary knight. A nightrider can make several knight leaps in the same direction during one move, provided each intermediate square where it would land is empty. In a fairy-chess problem, the composer’s rules define any extra details.
The turned shape has a specific job in fairy-chess notation: Unicode’s fairy-chess proposal maps it to the black nightrider. It is one of the altered pieces used in chess problems, not simply a rotated picture of an ordinary knight.
Accounts differ on who introduced the nightrider: one gives W. S. Andrews an early invention date of 1907; another credits T. R. Dawson with naming and using it in 1925. Unicode 17.0.0 describes the broader printing convention: chess problem composers and printers reused existing metal type—the small blocks that printed chess-piece symbols—by turning it upside down.
How do I type this turned chess piece?
Use a Unicode input method if your editor supports one. In an editor that accepts hexadecimal Unicode input, enter U1FA28; some system character pickers also list chess symbols.
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1Why does 🨨 show up as a box?
It can. The font used by the receiving app may lack this text glyph, so it can show a blank space or missing-character box.
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How to type or find 🨨
- Also called
- black nightrider · turned knight
- Search it as
- nightrider · knightrider · upside down knight · fairy chess · chess symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🨨\1FA28Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.