Try Om emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Om emoji mean?
The Om symbol, sacred in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism.
Reverent. It is a religious symbol first, and yoga culture borrowed it second.
How to use 🕉️ naturally
Religious posts, festivals, yoga and meditation.
Reaction symbols work like visual emphasis: they reinforce a word, rate an idea or replace a short response. Repetition normally increases intensity, but it can also make a message feel more performative.
From standard to slang
The history of 🕉️
- 2014
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Om was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.7, dated 2014. Another retrospective label, covering characters recognised as emoji in 2014.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
The Devanagari sign for the sacred syllable Om, encoded long before emoji as a script character. It sits with the other faith symbols Unicode gave emoji presentation in 2014.
- Today
How its use evolved
Religious posts, festivals, yoga and meditation.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🕉️ in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Diwali greetings to everyone 🕉️
Morning practice, every day this month 🕉️
Temple at sunrise 🕉️
When to use it
Using 🕉️ clearly
Religious posts, festivals, yoga and meditation. It lands as om emoji or 🕉️ meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the om emoji
What does 🕉️ mean in a text message?
The Om symbol, sacred in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. Reverent. It is a religious symbol first, and yoga culture borrowed it second.
Is 🕉️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are om emoji, 🕉️ meaning, hindu emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🕉️ look different on another device?
U+1F549 U+FE0F identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the om emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🕉️ is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the om emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🕉️ as emoji in Emoji 0.7, dated 2014. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🕉️ in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F549 U+FE0F | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🕉️ | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🕉️ | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F549 \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F549}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%95%89%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F549 U+FE0F
- Category
- Symbols & Reactions
- Also known as
- om emoji🕉️ meaninghindu emoji
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