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🪯Khanda Emoji
🪯 is the khanda emoji, U+1FAAF, one of 13 in the Religious Symbols set. It arrived with Emoji 15.0 (2022) and is commonly used for deg, fateh and khalsa.
What 🪯 khanda means
Faith, holidays and identity markers in bios, where a single symbol often stands in for an entire tradition. Greetings around Eid, Diwali, Hanukkah, Easter and Vaisakhi rely on this group. The khanda 🪯, added in Emoji 15.0 in 2023, was the first Sikh symbol in the standard. ☮️ and ⚛️ sit here as well despite belonging more to politics and science.
Unicode tags this one deg, fateh and khalsa and files it under Symbols → Religious Symbols.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1FAAF | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🪯 | |
| HTML decimal | 🪯 | |
| CSS | \1FAAF | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAAF} | |
| Python | \U0001FAAF | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDEAF | |
| Rust | \u{1faaf} | |
| Swift | \u{1FAAF} | |
| PHP | \u{1FAAF} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AA%AF | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA AF | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DEAF | |
| Base64 | 8J+qrw== | |
| Decimal | 129711 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 15.0 (2022) | |
Keywords
- deg
- fateh
- khalsa
- religion
- sikh
- sikhism
- tegh
How to type 🪯
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “khanda”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “deg”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1faafand Enter. - HTML — paste
🪯.
How 🪯 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🪯Apple
- 🪯Segoe
- 🪯Noto
- 🪯System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🪯 khanda emoji mean?+
🪯 is the khanda emoji, tagged deg, fateh and khalsa. Faith, holidays and identity markers in bios, where a single symbol often stands in for an entire tradition. Greetings around Eid, Diwali, Hanukkah, Easter and Vaisakhi rely on this group. The khanda 🪯, added in Emoji 15.0 in 2023, was the first Sikh symbol in the standard. ☮️ and ⚛️ sit here as well despite belonging more to politics and science.
What is the Unicode code for 🪯?+
khanda is U+1FAAF. In HTML that is 🪯, in CSS \1FAAF, and in JavaScript \u{1FAAF}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🪯 emoji added?+
khanda got its emoji presentation in Emoji 15.0 (2022). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Religious Symbols in Symbols.
Added in Emoji 15.0 (2022)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🪯 khanda.