☯ - Yin Yang (U+262F) - HTML Symbols

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3. U+262F

Technical information

Symbol	☯
Name	Yin yang
Unicode number	U+262F
Category	Religious and political symbols

Description

The Unicode character ☯, or U+262F, is known as the "Yin Yang". It belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. The yin yang symbol represents the philosophical and religious concept originating in ancient Chinese philosophy, where yin and yang are seen as complementary forces that interact to form a dynamic system in which the whole is greater than the assembled parts. The symbol is a circle divided by a curvy line into two teardrop-like shapes in black (yin) and white (yang), each containing a dot of the opposite color, signifying the interdependence and mutual influence between the two forces.

Encoding

HTML Entity	☯
HTML Entity (hex)	☯
URL Escape Code	%E2%98%AF
UTF-8 (hex)	0xE2 0x98 0xAF
UTF-8 (binary)	11100010:10011000:10101111
UTF-16	0x262F
UTF-32	0x0000262F

Source Code

C, C++, and Java	"\u262F"
CSS Code	\262F
JavaScript	"\u262F"
Perl	\x{262F}
Python 2	u"\u262F"
Python 3	\u262F
Ruby	\u{262F}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ☯ in sentence and in bold like this ☯ and in italic like this ☯.

Font size:

☯12px ☯16px ☯20px ☯28px ☯36px ☯48px ☯72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input disabled input ☯ input-group ☯ select ☯ button ☯ button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9775;</span> Copy

span { content: "\262F"; }Copy

The symbol in different fonts

☯-apple-system ☯Apple Color Emoji ☯Arial ☯BlinkMacSystemFont ☯Courier New ☯Georgia ☯Droid Sans ☯Helvetica ☯Noto Sans ☯Oxygen ☯Roboto ☯"Segoe UI" ☯sans-serif ☯Segoe UI Emoji ☯Segoe UI Symbol ☯system-ui ☯Times New Roman ☯Ubuntu ☯Verdana

References

• More information at Unicode.org
• The Unicode Consortium
• List of Unicode characters
• Unicode Database - UnicodeData