U+26B1 "⚱" Funeral Urn Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⚱
U+26B1 "⚱" Funeral Urn is a symbol representing a funerary urn, typically used to denote cremation, death, or memorial contexts in digital communication. It was added to the Unicode Standard in version 5.2, released in 2009, as part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block, and it visually depicts a classical urn shape with a lid, often associated with funeral services, cemeteries, or ashes. This character can be employed in text messages, website design, or social media posts to convey themes of remembrance, loss, or commemoration, serving as a concise graphic alternative to textual descriptions in informal digital writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+26B1 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Funeral Urn |
| 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 0x9A 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x26B1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000026B1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u26b1 |