What 🨩 means
It marks a fairy-chess piece in specialist notation.
A 1969 fairy-chess guide documents the convention. Printers turned metal blocks bearing chess shapes upside down for unusual pieces; Unicode later encoded turned forms.
The problem key assigns its move in that composition.
Specialist notation for fairy-chess problems and software.
Do not infer a move from the turned shape; check the problem's key.
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
2Does a turned pawn mean one specific fairy-chess piece?
No. The composer's key assigns its move; the turned orientation alone does not identify a specific piece.
Why does 🨩 show as a box?
A box or blank space usually means the active font lacks this glyph.
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How to type or find 🨩
- Also called
- turned pawn · fairy pawn
- Search it as
- fairy chess · fairy chess notation · chess problem
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
🨩CSS
\1FA29Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🨩
HTML hex
🨩
CSS content
content: "\1FA29";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A8%A9
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.