U+2E19 Palm Branch
U+2E19 was added in Unicode version 5.1 in 2008. It belongs to the block Supplemental Punctuation in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Punctuation 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. U+2E19 offers a line break opportunity after its position.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The palm branch, or palm frond, is a symbol of victory, triumph, peace, and eternal life originating in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world. The palm (Phoenix) was sacred in Mesopotamian religions, and in ancient Egypt represented immortality. In Judaism, the lulav, a closed frond of the date palm is part of the festival of Sukkot. A palm branch was awarded to victorious athletes in ancient Greece, and a palm frond or the tree itself is one of the most common attributes of Victory personified in ancient Rome.
In Christianity, the palm branch is associated with Jesus' Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem, celebrated on Palm Sunday, when the Gospel of John says of the citizens, "they took palm branches and went out to meet Him" (12:13 HCSB). Additionally, the palm has meaning in Christian iconography, representing victory, i.e. the victory of the spirit over the flesh (Revelation 7:9).
Since a victory signals an end to a conflict or competition, the palm developed into a symbol of peace, a meaning it can have in Islam, where it is often associated with Paradise.
The palm appears on several flags or seals representing countries or other places, with the coconut palm associated with the tropics.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 11801 |
| UTF-8 | E2 B8 99 |
| UTF-16 | 2E 19 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 2E 19 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%B8%99 |
| HTML hex reference | ⸙ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⸙ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 38 F3 35 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 5.1 (2008) | |
| PALM BRANCH | |
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| Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs | |
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| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Palm Branch | |
| ✘ | |
| Palm Branch | |
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| Palm Branch | |
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| Palm Branch | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
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| none | |
| not a number | |
| Palm Branch | |
| R |