How to type Peace Symbol
To type Peace Symbol (☮), press Alt + 9774 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ☮ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+262E directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 262e on Linux, or 262e then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Peace Symbol
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+262E
- Windows
- Alt + 9774 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 9774 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ☮ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+262E | PEACE SYMBOL |
Other symbols
☮ lives in the Miscellaneous Symbols block (U+2600-U+26FF), weather, astrology, religion, games and a wide miscellany. Within Unicode it is classified as So, a symbol.
What Peace Symbol is used for
Unicode publishes a second list of names for ☮ in CLDR, the keywords its own search data offers rather than the formal name, and they are healing and peaceful. Those words are what somebody looking for this character is liable to type when Peace Symbol is not the name they know it by, and the search on the symbol lists matches them as well as the Unicode name.
How Peace Symbol behaves in software
☮ takes one column in a terminal. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one.
Every way to write Peace Symbol
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+262E |
| Decimal | 9774 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 98 AE |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26 2E |
| HTML entity | ☮ |
| HTML numeric | ☮ or ☮ |
| CSS | \262E |
| JavaScript | \u262E |
| Python | \u262E |
| URL-encoded | %E2%98%AE |
| SVG | 262E.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ☮ arrives as ☮
One character has become three, which is what a three-byte UTF-8 sequence looks like when each byte is read separately: E2 98 AE read as Windows-1252 gives exactly ☮. The text is intact and the damage is in the reading, so setting the reader to UTF-8 restores it and retyping does not. A rectangle instead of the mojibake means the opposite: the encoding is right and the font has no glyph at U+262E, which for a character this far outside Latin-1 is common in older office fonts.