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right-facing svasti sign

Right-Facing Svasti Sign

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࿕ is the Tibetan right-facing svasti, called yungdrung: a sacred sign of good fortune in Tibetan Buddhism and Bön, and a relative of the Hindu and Jain swastika. You meet it mostly in religious texts and art, sometimes in online posts. Because the Nazis made the same hooked cross their emblem in 1920, a bare ࿕ can shock Western readers.

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What ࿕ means

Yes: the Tibetan form of a sign far older than Nazism.

The word comes from Sanskrit svasti, "well-being" or "may it go well". The hooked cross has been drawn across Eurasia for thousands of years, and in Hindu and Jain practice the swastika is still drawn on doorways and shrines as a blessing; in Gujarat, families mark new account books with it at Diwali.

In Tibetan it is the yungdrung, roughly "the eternal, the unchanging". In Bön, a Tibetan religion that traces its roots to before Buddhism, it is so central that the faith is often called Yungdrung Bön, and Bön uses the left-facing form (). Some Tibetan settings pair the right-facing one with Buddhism, but Buddhist art shows both, so direction is a clue, never proof.

In 1920 the Nazi Party adopted the hooked cross, tilted on its point, as its emblem. Under that flag the Nazi regime started the Second World War and carried out the Holocaust, and for many people in Europe and the Americas it remains a symbol of hatred; several countries restrict Nazi symbols by law, while the United States does not. Across much of Asia the religious sign is still in daily use, so the same shape carries both stories today.

Why did someone send me ࿕?

Usually as a blessing or a Buddhist or Bön reference.

Next to Tibetan script, prayers or temple photos it means good fortune and blessing.

Next to slogans, the number 88 (neo-Nazi code for "Heil Hitler") or hostile words, it is being used as a Nazi symbol, and the religious history does not change that. If it arrives alone from someone you don't know well, ask what they mean before reacting.

Sacred and auspicious among Tibetan, Hindu, Jain and Buddhist users; alarming to many Western readers without context.

Posted bare to a Western audience, it can easily be read as a Nazi symbol.

Part of collections

What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings

A blessing: good fortune, sacred tradition.

Don't confuse it with

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Combination ideas

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Buddhist auspicious symbols together.
A blessing for good fortune.
The pair: right-facing and left-facing Tibetan svasti.

Questions people ask

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Which way does the Buddhist swastika face?

It can face either way. In Tibet the right-facing form is often linked with Buddhism and the left-facing one with Bön; in Japan the mirror form 卍 marks Buddhist temples on maps.

Is ࿕ an emoji?

No. It is a text symbol from Unicode's Tibetan block, meant for general use too, so it needs a font that covers it and has no emoji picture.

How to type or find ࿕

Also called
svasti · swastika · yungdrung
Search it as
Buddhist swastika · right-facing swastika · good luck symbol · Bön symbol
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 0FD5, then AltX 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 “right-facing svasti sign”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 0fd5, then Enter or Space.
HTML
࿕
CSS
\0FD5
Windows
In Word, type 0FD5 then press AltX; elsewhere use Character Map with a Tibetan font.
Mac
Switch to the Unicode Hex Input source, hold Option and type 0FD5.
Linux
On GNOME and most GTK desktops, press CtrlShiftU, type 0fd5, then Enter or Space.
Shows as a box?
Your font lacks the sign; the character is still there. Install a Tibetan font such as Noto Serif Tibetan.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
࿕
HTML hex
࿕
CSS content
content: "\0FD5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E0%BF%95
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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