Wheel of Dharma Emoji ☸

U+2638

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Emoji Meaning

Religious symbol of Buddhism. Dharma is Buddha's teaching how to achieve enlightenment, freed from rebirth. It has a symbol that is depicted as a wheel with at least eight spokes. Do not confuse with the wheel of samsara.

The symbol "Wheel of Dharma" is included in the "Miscellaneous symbol" Subblock of the "Miscellaneous Symbols" Block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. In 2015, it was also approved as an emoji in version 1.0 and added to the "Religion" Subcategory of the "Symbols" Category.

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Synonyms

dharmachakra.

Unicode Name	Wheel of Dharma
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Unicode Block	Miscellaneous Symbols
Unicode Subblock	Miscellaneous symbol
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)
Emoji Version	1.0 (2015)
Emoji Category	Symbols
Emoji Subcategory	Religion

Version	1.1
Block	Miscellaneous Symbols
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	2638
Simple case change	2638

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	E2 98 B8	226 152 184	14850232	11100010 10011000 10111000
UTF-16BE	26 38	38 56	9784	00100110 00111000
UTF-16LE	38 26	56 38	14374	00111000 00100110
UTF-32BE	00 00 26 38	0 0 38 56	9784	00000000 00000000 00100110 00111000
UTF-32LE	38 26 00 00	56 38 0 0	942014464	00111000 00100110 00000000 00000000