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Appearance
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☯︎ | ☯️ | |||||||
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩. | ||||||||
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Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]☯
- The Great Monad, used in the West as a generic yin-yang symbol since the 1960s
- Synonym: ࿊
- Marks a Taoist shrine on a map
- tai chi chuan
Usage notes
[edit]The Unicode form is a dotted variant of the 太極圖/太极图 (tàijítú) that was introduced during the Ming Dynasty and originally called 河圖/河图 (“he tu”). The modern name in Chinese is 太极兩儀图.