☮


☮ U+262E, ☮
PEACE SYMBOL
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[U+262D] 		Miscellaneous Symbols ☯ →
[U+262F]

Translingual

Etymology

Originally designed for the British nuclear disarmament movement by Gerald Holtom in 1958.[1] Holtom drew himself when he was in a state of despair: with his palms stretched both outwards and downwards.[2][3] The symbol is usually interpreted as a combination of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D," standing for "nuclear disarmament".[1]

Symbol

☮︎

  1. peace
  2. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
  3. opposition to nuclear proliferation


Presentations of ☮︎
Text
style		Emoji
style
☮︎☮️
Note: Character's appearance
may be different on each system.
Text style is forced with ︎
and emoji style with ️

See also

References
  1. Breyer, Melissa (2010-09-21), “Where did the peace sign come from?”, in Shine‎, Yahoo!, archived from the original on 2012-11-07
  2. http://www.cnduk.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=435&Itemid=131
  3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7292252.stm
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