U+1FA50 · Other symbol
White Chess Knight-Bishop Symbol 🩐
🩐 is white chess knight-bishop, U+1FA50. Unicode also records it as “cardinal”. It was added in Unicode 12.0, and Unicode files it under Other symbol.
Also known as
- cardinal
- princess
What Unicode says about 🩐
may have the form of a mitre or biretta
— annotation from the Unicode Standard, NamesList.txt
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1FA50 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🩐 | |
| HTML decimal | 🩐 | |
| CSS | \1FA50 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FA50} | |
| Python | \U0001FA50 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDE50 | |
| Rust | \u{1fa50} | |
| Swift | \u{1FA50} | |
| PHP | \u{1FA50} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A9%90 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A9 90 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DE50 | |
| Base64 | 8J+pkA== | |
| Decimal | 129616 | |
| Category | Other symbol (So) | |
| Introduced | Unicode 12.0 | |
Will 🩐 survive being pasted?
- Normalisation. Yes. 🩐 is unchanged by NFKC, so it survives normalising systems intact.
- Legacy encodings. 🩐 sits above U+FFFF, so it needs a surrogate pair in UTF-16. Software that counts characters by code unit will report it as two.
- Size. 4 bytes in UTF-8. Character-limited fields — SMS, bios, some form validators — usually count bytes, not characters.
Nearby in Chess Symbols
Chess pieces in every rotation, plus xiangqi pieces. The rotated forms exist so a diagram can show a position from either player’s side.
How to type 🩐
| Windows | Type 1FA50 then press Alt+X |
|---|---|
| macOS | Press Ctrl+Cmd+Space, then search for “white chess knight-bishop” |
| Linux | Press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 1fa50, press Enter |
| HTML | 🩐 |
About Unicode’s Other symbol category
Unicode files this under "other symbol" — the catch-all for pictographs, signs and marks that are neither maths, currency, nor letter-like. It is the largest symbol category in the standard.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I type the 🩐 white chess knight-bishop symbol?
- On Windows, type 1FA50 and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 1fa50. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
- What is the code for 🩐?
- White Chess Knight-Bishop is U+1FA50. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
- What kind of character is 🩐?
- White Chess Knight-Bishop is filed under Other symbol in the Chess Symbols block, and was introduced in Unicode 12.0. Unicode files this under "other symbol" — the catch-all for pictographs, signs and marks that are neither maths, currency, nor letter-like. It is the largest symbol category in the standard.