☯


☯ U+262F, ☯
YIN YANG
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[U+262E] 		Miscellaneous Symbols ☰ →
[U+2630]

Translingual

Symbol

☯

  1. The Great Monad, used in the West as a generic yin-yang symbol since the 1960s
    Synonym: ࿊
  2. Marks a Taoist shrine on a map
  3. tai chi chuan


Presentations of ☯︎
Text
style		Emoji
style
☯︎☯️
Note: Character's appearance
may be different on each system.
Text style is forced with ︎
and emoji style with ️

Usage notes

The Unicode form is a dotted variant of the 太極圖／太极图 (tàijítú) that was introduced during the Ming Dynasty and originally called 河圖／河图 (“he tu”). The modern name in Chinese is 太极兩儀图／太极两仪图.

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