Yin yang
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- Shortcode
:yin_yang:- Unicode
U+262F- HTML
☯- CSS
\262F- JavaScript
"\u{262F}"- URL
%E2%98%AF%EF%B8%8F
What ☯️ means
The yin and yang, black and white swirls that hold each other. It means balance, harmony and opposites that need each other.
Used for complementary pairs, like best friends or couples who are opposites. It also fits Taoist ideas, martial arts and inner balance.
Facts
Yin yang ☯️ 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 :yin_yang:. People also look for it with words like “difficult”, “lives”, “religion”, or “tao”.
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.