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Technical information
| Symbol | ☭ | |
| Name | Hammer and sickle | |
| Unicode number | U+262D | |
| Category | Religious and political symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character "☭", or U+262D, is known as the "Hammer and Sickle". This symbol falls under the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and is categorized as a "Symbol, Other" in the Unicode standard. The hammer and sickle symbol is a widely recognized emblem of communist ideology. It was originally adopted during the Russian Revolution in 1917, and later became globally recognized through its incorporation into the flag of the Soviet Union. The hammer represents industrial laborers while the sickle represents agricultural workers, and together they symbolize the unity of these two groups. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ☭ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ☭ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%98%AD | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x98 0xAD | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011000:10101101 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x262D | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000262D |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u262D" | |
| CSS Code | \262D | |
| JavaScript | "\u262D" | |
| Perl | \x{262D} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u262D" | |
| Python 3 | \u262D | |
| Ruby | \u{262D} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ☭ in sentence and in bold like this ☭ and in italic like this ☭.
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Font size:
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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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select
button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>☭</span>
span {
content: "\262D";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana