What 🨪 means
It marks a special king piece in variant-chess notation.
Either player may move or capture a neutral piece, according to the variant's rules.
Printers reused metal type by physically turning chess sorts for variant problems and commentary. Chess books and images show turned pieces from the second half of the fifteenth century; that dates the orientation practice, not this exact neutral sign.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 🨪 show as an empty square?
Your font may lack this chess glyph. The text can still contain 🨪; changing character encoding alone will not add a drawing.
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How to type or find 🨪
- Search it as
- fairy chess · neutral king · turned king · chess symbol box
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
🨪CSS
\1FA2ACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🨪
HTML hex
🨪
CSS content
content: "\1FA2A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A8%AA
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On screen
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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.