U+267B Black Universal Recycling Symbol
U+267B was added in Unicode version 3.2 in 2002. It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
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+267B forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The CLDR project calls this character “recycling symbol” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: recycle.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: ♻️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The universal recycling symbol (U+2672 ♲ UNIVERSAL RECYCLING SYMBOL or U+267B ♻ BLACK UNIVERSAL RECYCLING SYMBOL in Unicode) is a symbol consisting of three chasing arrows folded in a Möbius strip. It is an internationally recognized symbol for recycling. The symbol originated on the first Earth Day in 1970, created by Gary Anderson, then a 23-year-old student for the Container Corporation of America. The symbol is not trademarked and is in the public domain. Many variations on the logo have been created since its creation.
Representations
| System | Representation |
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| Nº | 9851 |
| UTF-8 | E2 99 BB |
| UTF-16 | 26 7B |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 26 7B |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%99%BB |
| HTML hex reference | ♻ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â™» |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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