U+1FAAF "🪯" Khanda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🪯
U+1FAAF "🪯" Khanda is a religious and cultural symbol primarily associated with Sikhism, where it represents the unity and sovereignty of the divine, often depicted as a double-edged sword (called a Khanda) encircled by a circle and flanked by two curved swords. It is also used in other South Asian traditions, including some Hindu and Jain contexts, to signify spiritual authority, justice, and the balance of power. The character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2022 as part of the Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A block, facilitating its digital representation across platforms and enabling broader recognition of its significance in global communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FAAF |
| Version Added | 15.0 |
| Name | Khanda |
| Block | Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🪯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🪯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xAA 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDEAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FAAF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udeaf |