U+1F9D8 Person In Lotus Position
U+1F9D8 was added in Unicode version 10.0 in 2017. It belongs to the block Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as yoga and meditation.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F9D8 prohibits a line break after it, if it’s followed by an emoji modifier.
The CLDR project calls this character “person in lotus position” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: meditation, yoga.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 🧘︎ The character can be changed in appearance, if it is followed by an emoji modifier. See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Lotus position or Padmasana (Sanskrit: पद्मासन, romanized: padmāsana) is a cross-legged sitting meditation pose from ancient India, in which each foot is placed on the opposite thigh. It is an ancient asana in yoga, predating hatha yoga, and is widely used for meditation in Hindu, Tantra, Jain, and Buddhist traditions.
Variations include easy pose (Sukhasana), half lotus, bound lotus, and psychic union pose. Advanced variations of several other asanas including yoga headstand have the legs in lotus or half lotus. The pose can be uncomfortable for people not used to sitting on the floor, and attempts to force the legs into position can injure the knees.
Shiva, the meditating ascetic God of Hinduism, Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, and the Tirthankaras in Jainism have been depicted in the lotus position, especially in statues. The pose is emblematic both of Buddhist meditation and of yoga, and as such has found a place in Western culture as a symbol of healthy living and well-being.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 129496 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F A7 98 |
| UTF-16 | D8 3E DD D8 |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F9 D8 |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%A7%98 |
| HTML hex reference | 🧘 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 🧘 |
| alias | yoga |
| alias | meditation |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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