Wheel of dharma
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- Shortcode
:wheel_of_dharma:- Unicode
U+2638- HTML
☸- CSS
\2638- JavaScript
"\u{2638}"- URL
%E2%98%B8%EF%B8%8F
What ☸️ means
The dharma wheel, an eight-spoked wheel. It is a key symbol of Buddhism and the Noble Eightfold Path.
Buddhists use it for teachings, temple visits and festivals. It is also used for meditation and mindfulness.
It is easy to mistake for a ship's wheel, so some people use it for sailing.
Facts
Wheel of dharma ☸️ is an emoji in the symbols category, under religion. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :wheel_of_dharma:. People also look for it with words like “Buddhist”, “dharma”, “religion”, or “wheel”.
Timeline
- 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.