What 🛓 means
It marks a Buddhist memorial monument called a stupa. Stupas may contain relics—remains or sacred objects linked to the Buddha or another revered teacher.
Indian memorial mounds reach back to around 500 BCE, before Buddhism; the oldest were not necessarily Buddhist. Buddhist stupas honored the Buddha, marked sacred places or events, and came to represent his continuing presence.
Questions people ask
1Why does the stupa symbol appear as a box?
Your active font or its fallback may lack this glyph. 🛓 is a text character drawn by fonts, not a standard emoji image.
How to type 🛓
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1F6D3, 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 “stupa”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f6d3, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🛓CSS
\1F6D3Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🛓
HTML hex
🛓
CSS content
content: "\1F6D3";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%9B%93
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.