U+534D "卍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+534D "卍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a glyph representing a sacred and ancient symbol known as the manji in East Asian cultures, where it has been used for millennia in Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism to denote good fortune, prosperity, and the eternal cycle of life. In Chinese, it is read as "wan" and signifies "ten thousand" or "infinity," often appearing on temples and religious artifacts as an auspicious emblem. However, in Western contexts, this symbol is frequently conflated with the Nazi swastika due to its identical shape, despite the latter being rotated 45 degrees and used for entirely different political and hateful purposes. The character remains a legitimate part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set, and its meaning depends entirely on cultural and contextual interpretation.