This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as khanda.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+262C forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The Khanda (Punjabi: ਖੰਡਾ, romanized: khaṇḍā) is the symbol of the Sikhism which attained its current form around the 1930s during the Ghadar Movement.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
9772
UTF-8
E2 98 AC
UTF-16
26 2C
UTF-32
00 00 26 2C
URL-Quoted
%E2%98%AC
HTML hex reference
☬
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
☬
alias
khanda
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 37 A6 38
RFC 5137
\u'262C'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u262C
C and C++
\u262C
C#
\u262C
CSS
\00262C
Excel
=UNICHAR(9772)
Go
\u262C
JavaScript
\u262C
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{262c}
JSON
\u262C
Java
\u262C
Lua
\u{262C}
Matlab
char(9772)
Perl
"\x{262C}"
PHP
\u{262c}
PostgreSQL
U&'\262C'
PowerShell
`u{262C}
Python
\u262C
Ruby
\u{262c}
Rust
\u{262c}
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