What 🤄 means
It marks the service’s place in the hymn order.
A typikon is a guide to church-service order. Dolnytsky’s 1899 book codified changes adopted by Ukrainian Greek Catholics after a church council in Lviv in 1891. Other typikons use different service-rank signs.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsIn a church-calendar entry
Six stichera, short hymns sung during worship, are appointed.
Sent alone in a casual chat
Ask the sender; the glyph alone does not explain their intent.
Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Is 🤄 an emoji?
No. It is text without emoji artwork; a font draws its shape.
How to type 🤄
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1F904, then Alt+X to get 🤄.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “left half circle with three dots”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f904, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🤄CSS
\1F904Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🤄
HTML hex
🤄
CSS content
content: "\1F904";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A4%84
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.