What 🨣 means
It marks a nonstandard chess piece. In fairy-chess notation, chess problems may use unusual pieces or rules; the puzzle’s key tells you which piece this symbol represents.
Thomas Rayner Dawson popularized fairy chess in the early 20th century. A 2017 Unicode proposal says printers turned existing small metal pieces that printed chess symbols to make signs for new pieces.
Why does it look different in my font?
Its appearance depends on the font. Chess symbol font support varies: a font without this character may show an empty box or substitute mark, while other fonts may draw it differently.
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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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How to type or find 🨣
- Search it as
- turned pawn · fairy chess · chess notation · chess font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🨣\1FA23Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.