U+262E "☮" Peace Symbol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
☮
U+262E "☮" Peace Symbol is a globally recognized icon representing peace, harmony, and nonviolence, originally designed in 1958 by British artist Gerald Holtom for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. The symbol combines the semaphore signals for the letters N and D, standing for Nuclear Disarmament, with its circular shape and downward extending lines evoking a stylized human figure in despair. Over time, it was adopted by the broader peace movement, counterculture of the 1960s, and various social justice causes, becoming one of the most enduring and ubiquitous symbols in modern history despite occasional controversies about its origins.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+262E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Peace Symbol |
| 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 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x262E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000262E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u262e |