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U+262A · STAR AND CRESCENT

Star and Crescent

  • CodepointU+262A
  • NameSTAR AND CRESCENT
  • Emoji namestar and crescent
  • Decimal9770
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–U+26FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+262A (☪) is STAR AND CRESCENT, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “star and crescent”, in the Symbols group, subgroup religion. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+262A U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

How to type ☪

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 98 AA3 bytes
UTF-16262A1 code unit
UTF-320000262A4 bytes
HTML decimal☪
HTML hex☪
CSS\262Ain content: "…"
JavaScript\u262A
JSON\u262A
Python\u262A
Python\N{STAR AND CRESCENT}by name
Java / C#\u262A
C / C++\u262Auniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{262A}
Go\u262A
Ruby\u262A
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9770)
URL-encoded%E2%98%AApercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols

All in block →
U+2624☤Caduceus U+2625☥Ankh U+2626☦Orthodox Cross U+2627☧Chi Rho U+2628☨Cross of Lorraine U+2629☩Cross of Jerusalem U+262B☫Farsi Symbol U+262C☬Adi Shakti U+262D☭Hammer and Sickle U+262E☮Peace Symbol U+262F☯Yin Yang U+2630☰Trigram for Heaven