Black Chess King Rotated Ninety Degrees 🨏
🨏 (U+1FA0F) is a standard Unicode character that you can copy and paste anywhere text is accepted. This page provides a concise reference with safe tips, internal links, and practical guidance so you can use it reliably across apps and platforms.
What it is and where it’s used: Black Chess King Rotated Ninety Degrees is part of the Symbols family (block: Chess Symbols). If you need styled or decorative alternatives, try our Fancy Text tool to generate compatible text that works in most modern interfaces.
History & usage: The character depicts BLACK CHESS KING ROTATED NINETY DEGREES. In use, it can represent a chess piece in games or tutorials, signaling the king’s authority and strategic importance. It can also stand for leadership or a pivotal move in a narrative or UI flow, where the rotated orientation highlights change or a new perspective. In messaging, it conveys ideas about competition, plan, or decision making with a clear symbol. Be mindful that appearance varies across platforms, apps, and fonts, so color, style, and detail may differ. If a platform lacks color emoji support, a monochrome or text‑style fallback may appear. For accessibility, ensure surrounding text conveys the intended meaning and provide alt text or labels where needed to support readers and screen readers.
Copy and input: the quickest method is to copy the character here. You can also insert it by its codepoint U+1FA0F in many development tools or editors. Some operating systems provide a character viewer or input palette that lets you search by name or code and insert the glyph into documents.
Display and fallback: if you see an empty box (tofu) or a placeholder rectangle, the active font might not include this codepoint. Switching to a font with broader Unicode coverage or using a fallback font usually fixes the issue. On the web, ensure the page’s font stack includes a general‑purpose fallback.
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Technical details
- Codepoint:
U+1FA0F - General Category:
So - Age:
12.0 - Bidi Class:
ON - Block:
Chess Symbols - Script:
Common - UTF-8:
F0 9F A8 8F - UTF-16:
D83E DE0F - UTF-32:
0001FA0F - HTML dec:
🨏 - HTML hex:
🨏 - JS escape:
\u{1FA0F} - Python \N{}:
\N{BLACK CHESS KING ROTATED NINETY DEGREES} - Python \U:
\U0001FA0F - URL-encoded:
%F0%9F%A8%8F - CSS escape:
\1FA0F
How to type / insert
Fast copy: click the Copy button near the top of this page.
By codepoint: in many editors and IDEs, you can insert via the Unicode code U+1FA0F or a built‑in character picker.
HTML: use the numeric entity 🨏 (hex) or 🨏 (decimal) when an HTML entity is needed.
Compatibility & troubleshooting
Font support: if the symbol does not render, the current font likely lacks this codepoint. Choose a font with broad Unicode coverage or allow a fallback font.
Web pages: ensure your CSS font stack includes a general fallback; avoid relying on images for common symbols to preserve accessibility and copyability.