What ☫ means
It means Iran through the Islamic Republic's emblem. The design stylizes the Arabic word Allah with four curved forms, a central sword, and a shadda above.
The emblem was made to replace the Lion and Sun after the 1979 revolution. Its tulip shape evokes martyrdom, while the whole design proclaims Islamic Republican identity rather than neutral Iranian heritage.
This exact form has no ancient lineage. As of 2026, its history starts as a post-revolutionary state emblem, formalized in 1980 for the new flag and state use.
When does ☫ sound political?
It sounds political beside state, religious, or revolutionary material. Alone with a country name it can read as shorthand for Iran; with government or ideological cues it points to the Islamic Republic itself.
Older Iranian symbolism reads differently. The Lion and Sun belongs to Iran's earlier state tradition, and the Faravahar commonly signals pre-Islamic heritage or Zoroastrian identity, so neither is interchangeable with ☫.
☫ is a text symbol, not a flag emoji. Copy it from the palette above; expect small differences between fonts.
Specific, political, and religiously loaded; use it when Iran's current official emblem is genuinely the point.
Do not use ☫ as a generic Persian or Zoroastrian decoration.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsDon't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
2is ☫ the Faravahar
No. The Faravahar is the winged figure linked to Zoroastrianism and pre-Islamic heritage; ☫ is the abstract emblem linked to the Islamic Republic.
Is ☫ a flag emoji?
No. It is a text symbol, so fonts can draw it differently. Its representative glyph was revised toward Iran's national standard in 1993.
How to type ☫
☫\262BCodes and encoding1 code points
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