What 🨞 means
It marks a nonstandard king-shaped piece; the problem defines its moves.
Fairy chess means chess problems or variants with extra pieces or rules. Printers made turned-piece signs by physically turning the metal type for ordinary chess, creating marks for new pieces.
Thomas Dawson introduced the grasshopper in 1913; it moves like a queen but must jump over a piece and land on the square just beyond.
A specialist chess-problem sign whose meaning depends on the puzzle’s stated convention.
The turn is not a move rule; check the problem’s key.
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Questions people ask
1Why 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.
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- Search it as
- turned chess king · fairy chess piece · upside-down king symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🨞\1FA1ECodes and encoding1 code points
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