U+262D "☭" Hammer and Sickle Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
☭
U+262D "☭" Hammer and Sickle is a symbol representing communism, socialism, and the labor movement, originally popularized as the emblem of the Soviet Union. It features a crossed hammer, symbolizing industrial workers, and a sickle, representing agricultural laborers, set against a circular background. In digital communication, it is encoded as a single character in the Miscellaneous Symbols block of Unicode, though its use can be controversial or restricted in some countries due to its association with totalitarian regimes. The character is sometimes employed in historical, political, or ironic contexts online.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+262D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hammer and Sickle |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ☭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ☭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x98 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x262D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000262D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u262d |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |