Peace Symbol Emoji
The 1958 nuclear disarmament badge, later adopted as a general peace sign.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Peace Symbol emoji mean?
The 1958 nuclear disarmament badge, later adopted as a general peace sign.
Earnest, with a retro edge. It was designed for nuclear disarmament and still carries a trace of that seriousness, which is why it can read as slightly dated in casual use.
How to use ☮️ naturally
Anti-war posts, sixties references and calls to calm down.
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 ☮️
- 2015
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Peace Symbol was first defined as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. The first release where Unicode versioned the emoji set as a standard in its own right.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Gerald Holtom's 1958 design for the nuclear disarmament movement, built from the semaphore signals for N and D inside a circle. The general peace meaning came later.
- Today
How its use evolved
Anti-war posts, sixties references and calls to calm down.
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.
Marched with my mum in the eighties ☮️
Everyone calm down, it is a spreadsheet ☮️
Ceasefire in the group chat ☮️
When to use it
Using ☮️ clearly
Anti-war posts, sixties references and calls to calm down. It lands as peace symbol 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 peace symbol emoji
What does ☮️ mean in a text message?
The 1958 nuclear disarmament badge, later adopted as a general peace sign. Earnest, with a retro edge. It was designed for nuclear disarmament and still carries a trace of that seriousness, which is why it can read as slightly dated in casual use.
Is ☮️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are peace symbol emoji, ☮️ meaning, peace sign emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does ☮️ look different on another device?
U+262E 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 peace symbol 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 peace symbol emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records ☮️ as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. 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.
Easily confused
☮️ compared with similar emoji
These sit close enough in meaning that people reach for the wrong one. Here is what actually separates them.
Peace Symbol or Yin Yang?
☮️ is a political symbol from 1958 about disarmament. ☯️ is a philosophical one about opposites in balance — they are not interchangeable.
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+262E 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 | \262E \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{262E}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %E2%98%AE%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+262E U+FE0F
- Category
- Symbols & Reactions
- Also known as
- peace symbol emoji☮️ meaningpeace sign emoji
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