U+269C Fleur-de-lis
U+269C was added in Unicode version 4.1 in 2005. 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+269C forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The CLDR project calls this character “fleur-de-lis” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: knights.
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 fleur-de-lis, also spelled fleur-de-lys (plural fleurs-de-lis or fleurs-de-lys), is a common heraldic charge in the (stylized) shape of a lily (in French, fleur and lis mean 'flower' and 'lily' respectively). Most notably, the fleur-de-lis (⚜️) is depicted on the traditional coat of arms of France that was used from the High Middle Ages until the French Revolution in 1792, and then again in brief periods in the 19th century. This design still represents France and the House of Bourbon in the form of marshalling in the arms of Spain, Quebec, and Canada — for example.
Other European nations have also employed the symbol. The fleur-de-lis became "at one and the same time, religious, political, dynastic, artistic, emblematic, and symbolic", especially in French heraldry. The Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph are among saints often depicted with a lily.
Some modern usage of the fleur-de-lis reflects "the continuing presence of heraldry in everyday life", often intentionally, but also when users are not aware that they are "prolonging the life of centuries-old insignia and emblems".
The fleur-de-lis is represented in Unicode at U+269C ⚜ FLEUR-DE-LIS in the Miscellaneous Symbols block.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9884 |
| UTF-8 | E2 9A 9C |
| UTF-16 | 26 9C |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 26 9C |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%9A%9C |
| HTML hex reference | ⚜ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⚜ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 37 B1 38 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 4.1 (2005) | |
| FLEUR-DE-LIS | |
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| Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Fleur-de-lis | |
| ✘ | |
| Fleur-de-lis | |
| Fleur-de-lis | |
| ✘ | |
| Fleur-de-lis | |
| Fleur-de-lis | |
| Fleur-de-lis | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Fleur-de-lis | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
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| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Fleur-de-lis | |
| Yes | |
| Fleur-de-lis | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| Other | |
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| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Fleur-de-lis | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Fleur-de-lis | |
| U |