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🨀

neutral chess king

Neutral Chess King

🨀 is a neutral king: neither White nor Black owns it, and both may move or capture it. It appears in fairy-chess puzzles. Unicode 18.0.0 describes neutral pieces as often half dark and half outlined, though fonts vary.

Text symbol

Also called: neutral king · fairy chess king
Search it as: fairy chess · chess variant
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🨀 means

It belongs to neither side; either side may move and capture it.

Fairy chess adds new pieces or rules to chess problems; the problem's rules set how this king moves.

How did neutral chess notation develop?

Older diagrams turned white-piece symbols to show neutral pieces.

Older problem publications turned white-piece symbols to represent neutral pieces; a 2017 proposal describes split forms as clearer. Printers also turned small metal blocks bearing chess-piece shapes to depict unusual pieces. Chess puzzles reach back to shatranj, an earlier chess form, where composed positions called mansūbāt were used.

Don't confuse it with

♔

White Chess King

♔ belongs to White; 🨀 belongs to neither side.

Combination ideas

A neutral king alongside White's king.

Questions people ask

Why 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.

How to type 🨀

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType 1FA00, then Alt+X to get 🨀.

Windows

Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).

macOS

Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “neutral chess king”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fa00, then Enter or Space.

HTML

🨀

CSS

\1FA00

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

🨀

HTML hex

🨀

CSS content

content: "\1FA00";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9F%A8%80

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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