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The word swastika is derived from the Sanskrit root swasti, which is composed of su 'good, well' and asti 'is; it is; there is'. [30] The word swasti occurs frequently in the Vedas as well as in classical literature, meaning 'health, luck, success, prosperity', and it was commonly used as a greeting.
Characters that fall in the "political or religious" category are given the "general category" So, which is the catch-all category for "Symbol, other", i.e. anything considered a "symbol" which does not fall in any of the three other categories of Sm (mathematical symbols), Sc (currency symbols) or Sk (phonetic modifier symbols, i.e. IPA signs ...
The symbol now known internationally as the "peace symbol" or "peace sign", was created in 1958 as a symbol for Britain's campaign for nuclear disarmament. [53] It went on to be widely adopted in the American anti-war movement in the 1960s and was re-interpreted as generically representing world peace.
Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigrams, warning signs, and weather, among others.
♂ Mars symbol - masculinity; 📰 Newspaper – democracy, press freedom; Nordic cross – Nordic model social democracy; Olive tree – peace, community, health; Parthenon – democracy; ☮ Peace sign – peace, pacifism, nuclear disarmament, democracy; Plough – communism, agrarian socialism, peasant movement, peasants rights; Poppy ...
Symbols of peace, a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
English: Unicode U+262E ☮ peace symbol. Logo of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), ... This logo was created with a text editor. Licensing.
The symbol 睽 also means separated, estranged, and stare. Its inner (lower) trigram is ☱ ( 兌 duì) open = ( 澤 ) swamp, and its outer (upper) trigram is ☲ ( 離 lí) radiance = ( 火 ) fire.