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U+2638 · WHEEL OF DHARMA

Wheel of Dharma

  • CodepointU+2638
  • NameWHEEL OF DHARMA
  • Emoji namewheel of dharma
  • Decimal9784
  • 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+2638 (☸) is WHEEL OF DHARMA, 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 “wheel of dharma”, 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+2638 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 B83 bytes
UTF-1626381 code unit
UTF-32000026384 bytes
HTML decimal☸
HTML hex☸
CSS\2638in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2638
JSON\u2638
Python\u2638
Python\N{WHEEL OF DHARMA}by name
Java / C#\u2638
C / C++\u2638universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2638}
Go\u2638
Ruby\u2638
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9784)
URL-encoded%E2%98%B8percent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+2388⎈Helm Symbol
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols

All in block →
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