U+262F "☯" Yin Yang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
☯
U+262F "☯" Yin Yang is a symbol from ancient Chinese philosophy representing the concept of dualism and balance, depicting a circle divided into a swirling black and white teardrop shape, with each half containing a small dot of the opposite color. It illustrates how seemingly opposite or contrary forces, such as light and dark or male and female, are actually interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, constantly interacting to create a harmonious whole.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+262F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Yin Yang |
| 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 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x262F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000262F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u262f |