U+1FA62 · Other symbol
Xiangqi Red Elephant Symbol 🩢
🩢 is xiangqi red elephant, U+1FA62. Unicode also records it as “hóng xiàng”. It was added in Unicode 11.0, and Unicode files it under Other symbol.
Also known as
- hóng xiàng
What Unicode says about 🩢
design typically shows 76F8
design sometimes shows 8C61 (Yuan dynasty)
— annotation from the Unicode Standard, NamesList.txt
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1FA62 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🩢 | |
| HTML decimal | 🩢 | |
| CSS | \1FA62 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FA62} | |
| Python | \U0001FA62 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDE62 | |
| Rust | \u{1fa62} | |
| Swift | \u{1FA62} | |
| PHP | \u{1FA62} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A9%A2 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A9 A2 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DE62 | |
| Base64 | 8J+pog== | |
| Decimal | 129634 | |
| Category | Other symbol (So) | |
| Introduced | Unicode 11.0 | |
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 1FA62 then press Alt+X |
|---|---|
| macOS | Press Ctrl+Cmd+Space, then search for “xiangqi red elephant” |
| Linux | Press Ctrl+Shift+U, type 1fa62, 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 🩢 xiangqi red elephant symbol?
- On Windows, type 1FA62 and press Alt+X. On Linux press Ctrl+Shift+U then 1fa62. On any system the quickest route is the copy button on this page.
- What is the code for 🩢?
- Xiangqi Red Elephant is U+1FA62. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes. The table above lists every escape format.
- What kind of character is 🩢?
- Xiangqi Red Elephant is filed under Other symbol in the Chess Symbols block, and was introduced in Unicode 11.0. 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.