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☸️Wheel Of Dharma Emoji
Unicode added ☸️ wheel of dharma in Unicode 7.0 (2014), filed under Symbols → Religious Symbols. Its codepoint is U+2638 U+FE0F, and it is tagged buddhist, dharma and religion.
What ☸️ wheel of dharma 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 buddhist, dharma and religion and files it under Symbols → Religious Symbols.
Copy variants
wheel of dharma carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How ☸️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- ☸U+2638wheel of dharma
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+2638 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ☸️ | |
| HTML decimal | ☸️ | |
| CSS | \2638\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{2638}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U00002638\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u2638\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{2638}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{2638}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{2638}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%98%B8%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 98 B8 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 2638 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4pi477iP | |
| Decimal | 9784 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
- buddhist
- dharma
- religion
- wheel
Appears in these collections
How to type ☸️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “wheel of dharma”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “buddhist”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type2638and 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 ☸️ wheel of dharma emoji mean?+
☸️ is the wheel of dharma emoji, tagged buddhist, dharma and religion. 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 ☸️?+
wheel of dharma is U+2638 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ☸️, in CSS \2638\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{2638}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ☸️ emoji added?+
wheel of dharma got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). 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.
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Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)
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