What 🨠 means
It marks a variant piece; the problem defines its role.
In fairy chess, problems introduce new pieces or change the rules. A turned rook marks a special piece, but the legend supplies its move. Some turned pieces have familiar assignments—the turned queen commonly marks a grasshopper—but this rook has no universal role.
A 1943 account describes fairy-chess problems with invented pieces and altered boards or goals. A 2017 Unicode proposal reproduces a published problem using a turned rook. “Turned” names an abstract notation form; it does not mean a physical rook is flipped over on the board.
How should I read or type it?
Check the legend; the turn does not define the move.
is the standard white rook in ordinary chess. 🨠 marks an additional piece in fairy-chess or variant notation.
This is font-rendered text rather than vendor emoji artwork. Fonts may draw it differently; a font without support may show a missing-character box.
Specialist chess-variant notation; it can look cryptic in casual chess chat.
The turn alone does not tell you how the piece moves.
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Questions people ask
1Why does the turned rook show as a box?
Your font or app may lack a glyph for it. A supporting font can display the text symbol, though its drawing may vary.
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How to type or find 🨠
- Search it as
- turned rook · fairy chess rook · fairy chess symbol · chess variant symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🨠\1FA201FA20; the shortcut depends on your system.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.