Neutral Chess Bishop Rotated Ninety Degrees 🨘
🨘 (U+1FA18) 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: Neutral Chess Bishop 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: NEUTRAL CHESS BISHOP ROTATED NINETY DEGREES depicts a chess bishop in a rotated orientation. Use it to indicate chess topics in chats or documents, such as discussing moves, positions, or strategy ideas. It can symbolize a shift in perspective when presenting alternative viewpoints or rewrites of a plan. Place it in UI hints or puzzles to mark board areas, rotations, or lessons about piece coordination, while keeping messages concise and clear. It may also appear in learning materials to label exercises about chess notation or piece awareness. Across platforms, colors and styles vary, so provide surrounding text to keep meaning clear, and ensure assistive technology can hear the intended idea for accessibility.
Copy and input: the quickest method is to copy the character here. You can also insert it by its codepoint U+1FA18 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.
Related references: browse the Categories for similar characters. When choosing a symbol, prefer the official codepoint for semantic clarity and better compatibility with search, copy, and accessibility tooling.
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Technical details
- Codepoint:
U+1FA18 - General Category:
So - Age:
12.0 - Bidi Class:
ON - Block:
Chess Symbols - Script:
Common - UTF-8:
F0 9F A8 98 - UTF-16:
D83E DE18 - UTF-32:
0001FA18 - HTML dec:
🨘 - HTML hex:
🨘 - JS escape:
\u{1FA18} - Python \N{}:
\N{NEUTRAL CHESS BISHOP ROTATED NINETY DEGREES} - Python \U:
\U0001FA18 - URL-encoded:
%F0%9F%A8%98 - CSS escape:
\1FA18
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+1FA18 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.