Black Chess Alfil
U+1FA57
Symbol Meaning
Black Chess Alfil. Chess Symbols.
The symbol “Black Chess Alfil” is included in the “Shatranj chess symbols” subblock of the “Chess Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version in .
| Unicode Name | Black Chess Alfil |
| Unicode Number | |
| Plane | 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Chess Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Shatranj chess symbols |
| Unicode Version | 17.0 (2025) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 1FA57 |
| Simple case change | 1FA57 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | F0 9F A9 97 | 240 159 169 151 | 4036995479 | 11110000 10011111 10101001 10010111 |
| UTF-16BE | D8 3E DE 57 | 216 62 222 87 | 3627998807 | 11011000 00111110 11011110 01010111 |
| UTF-16LE | 3E D8 57 DE | 62 216 87 222 | 1054365662 | 00111110 11011000 01010111 11011110 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 01 FA 57 | 0 1 250 87 | 129623 | 00000000 00000001 11111010 01010111 |
| UTF-32LE | 57 FA 01 00 | 87 250 1 0 | 1476002048 | 01010111 11111010 00000001 00000000 |
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