What 🨬 means
It marks a neutral rook in turned-piece notation.
Fairy chess changes pieces, boards, or rules. From the early 20th century, composers rotated standard symbols to mark altered pieces; metal-type printing let publishers reuse the same type.
Examples from 2007 and 2012 respectively show a neutral turned rook and turned rooks in problems. The problem’s rules or legend define its move.
For fairy-chess problems and variant diagrams, not general reactions.
The turn alone does not define a move; check the problem’s legend.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 🨬 show as a box?
It can: an unsupported font may show a missing-glyph box; the character remains a text symbol, not emoji artwork.
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How to type or find 🨬
- Search it as
- turned rook · neutral rook · fairy chess · rotated chess symbols · chess notation
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
🨬CSS
\1FA2CCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🨬
HTML hex
🨬
CSS content
content: "\1FA2C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A8%AC
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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.