U+26FC Headstone Graveyard Symbol
U+26FC was added to Unicode in version 5.2 (2009). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as graveyard, memorial park and cemetery.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+26FC behaves as Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word cemetery (from Greek κοιμητήριον, "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term graveyard is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard.
The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, columbarium, niche, or other edifice. In Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to cultural practices and religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often include crematoria, and some grounds previously used for both, continue as crematoria as a principal use long after the interment areas have been filled.
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Nº | 9980 |
UTF-8 | E2 9B BC |
UTF-16 | 26 FC |
UTF-32 | 00 00 26 FC |
URL-Quoted | %E2%9B%BC |
HTML-Escape | ⛼ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â¼ |
alias | graveyard |
alias | memorial park |
alias | cemetery |
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