U+26FC "⛼" Headstone Graveyard Symbol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⛼
U+26FC "⛼" Headstone Graveyard Symbol is a pictorial glyph that depicts a rounded headstone or grave marker, commonly used to represent cemeteries, burial sites, or memorial locations on maps and in digital signage. It was included in the Unicode standard as part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block, originally derived from the ARIB STD B24 standard for Japanese broadcasting, where it serves as a clear, non-linguistic icon for indicating places of rest or somber remembrance. Despite its specific appearance, the symbol is distinct from the more widely known "skull and crossbones" hazard symbol and is primarily employed in geographic or thematic contexts to denote graveyards without relying on textual language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+26FC |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Headstone Graveyard 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 0x9B 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x26FC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000026FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u26fc |