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Glyph for U+534D
Source: Noto CJK

U+534D CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​534D

U+534D was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+4E00 to U+9FFF CJK Unified Ideographs in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as swastika, one of the auspicious signs recognized (e.g. in Chinese Tathagata Buddhism) as being on the chest of Buddha (and variously seen in statuary on the chest, soles of the feet, or palms of the hands). Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is .

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+534D behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The swastika symbol, or , is an ancient religious and cultural symbol, predominantly in various Eurasian, as well as some African and American cultures, now also widely recognized for its appropriation by the Nazi Party and by neo-Nazis. It continues to be used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. It generally takes the form of a cross, the arms of which are of equal length and perpendicular to the adjacent arms, each bent midway at a right angle.

The word swastika comes from Sanskrit: स्वस्तिक, romanized: svastika, meaning "conducive to well-being". In Hinduism, the right-facing symbol (clockwise) (卐) is called swastika, symbolizing surya ("sun"), prosperity and good luck, while the left-facing symbol (counter-clockwise) (卍) is called sauwastika, symbolising night or tantric aspects of Kali. In Jain symbolism, it represents Suparshvanatha – the seventh of 24 Tirthankaras (spiritual teachers and saviours), while in Buddhist symbolism it represents the auspicious footprints of the Buddha. In several major Indo-European religions, the swastika symbolises lightning bolts, representing the thunder god and the king of the gods, such as Indra in Vedic Hinduism, Zeus in the ancient Greek religion, Jupiter in the ancient Roman religion, and Thor in the ancient Germanic religion. The symbol is found in the archeological remains of the Indus Valley Civilisation and Samarra, as well as in early Byzantine and Christian artwork.

Used for the first time by far-right Romanian politician A. C. Cuza as a symbol of international antisemitism prior to World War I, it was a symbol of auspiciousness and good luck for most of the Western world until the 1930s, when the German Nazi Party adopted the swastika as an emblem of the Aryan race. As a result of World War II and the Holocaust, in the West it continues to be strongly associated with Nazism, antisemitism, white supremacism, or simply evil. As a consequence, its use in some countries, including Germany, is prohibited by law. However, the swastika remains a symbol of good luck and prosperity in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain countries such as Nepal, India, Thailand, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, China and Japan, and by some peoples, such as the Navajo people of the Southwest United States. It is also commonly used in Hindu marriage ceremonies and Dipavali celebrations.

In various European languages, it is known as the fylfot, gammadion, tetraskelion, or cross cramponnée (a term in Anglo-Norman heraldry); German: Hakenkreuz; French: croix gammée; Italian: croce uncinata; Latvian: ugunskrusts. In Mongolian it is called Хас (khas) and mainly used in seals. In Chinese it is called 卍字 (wànzì) meaning "all things symbol", pronounced manji in Japanese, manja (만자) in Korean and vạn tự / chữ vạn in Vietnamese.

Reverence for the swastika symbol in Asian cultures, in contrast to the stigma attached to it in the West, has led to misinterpretations and misunderstandings.

Representations

System Representation
21325
UTF-8 E5 8D 8D
UTF-16 53 4D
UTF-32 00 00 53 4D
URL-Quoted %E5%8D%8D
HTML hex reference 卍
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 卍
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) D8 B3
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) D2 C4
Pīnyīn

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Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-534D
Unicode 1 Name
Block CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category Other Letter
Script Han
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+534D CJK Unified Ideograph-534D
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+534D CJK Unified Ideograph-534D
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+534D CJK Unified Ideograph-534D
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+534D CJK Unified Ideograph-534D
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+534D CJK Unified Ideograph-534D
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+534D CJK Unified Ideograph-534D
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+534D CJK Unified Ideograph-534D
Case Folding Glyph for U+534D CJK Unified Ideograph-534D
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+534D CJK Unified Ideograph-534D
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
Ideographic
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+534D CJK Unified Ideograph-534D
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+534D CJK Unified Ideograph-534D
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Wide
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Ideographic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+534D CJK Unified Ideograph-534D
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U
kAlternateTotalStrokes 6:J
Big Five Mapping C9C3
CCCII Mapping 216D42
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping 2-2223
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping 2-2223
Cangjie Input Code NX
kCantonese maan6
kCowles 2582
kDaeJaweon 0356.080
Unihan Definition swastika, one of the auspicious signs recognized (e.g. in Chinese Tathagata Buddhism) as being on the chest of Buddha (and variously seen in statuary on the chest, soles of the feet, or palms of the hands)
kEACC 216D42
kFennIndex 593.03
kFourCornerCode 1221.7
kGB5 1623
kHanYu 10051.150
kHangul 만:0N
kIICore AJKP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0356.080
kIRGDaiKanwaZiten 02724
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10051.150
kIRGKangXi 0156.210
kIRG_GSource G5-3037
kIRG_HSource HB2-C9C3
kIRG_JSource J0-5244
kIRG_KPSource KP0-DABA
kIRG_KSource K0-5833
kIRG_TSource T2-2223
kJapaneseKun MANJI
kJapaneseOn BAN MAN
kJis0 5036
kKPS0 DABA
kKSC0 5619
kKangXi 0156.210
kKorean MAN
kKoreanName 2015
kMandarin wàn
kMatthews 7032
kMeyerWempe 1747b
kMorohashi 02724
kNelson 0079
kPhonetic 865
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) C+4313+24.2.4
Radical Stroke Count (KangXi) 24.4
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) 24.4
Semantic Variant Glyph for U+4E07 U+4E07Glyph for U+5350 U+5350 Glyph for U+842C U+842C
Taiwanese Telegraph Code 0591
Stroke Number 4
UnihanCore2020 Set HJKMPT
Xerox Code 265:322