☮Peace symbol
The peace sign, drawn as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament badge.
Looking for the colour emoji instead? ☮️ Peace Symbol — same idea, drawn as a picture by each platform.
- Unicode
- U+262E
- Alt code
- Alt+9774
- HTML
- ☮
- Unicode name
- Peace Symbol
Where the Peace symbol comes from
Gerald Holtom designed this for the first Aldermaston march in 1958, for the British campaign against nuclear weapons. The lines inside the circle are semaphore: N and D, for nuclear disarmament. Holtom deliberately never copyrighted it, which is why it spread as far as it did.
Bios, protest material and anything invoking the sixties. It carries more political weight than most decorative symbols, so it reads as a statement rather than as ornament.
Peace symbol codes
Four notations, one result: whatever you copy here comes out as U+262E.
How to type ☮ on any keyboard
Keyboard, code, markup or document — the route to U+262E differs by tool.
Will ☮ actually show up?
We checked 147 fonts installed on a normal machine and counted how many of them contain this character. A symbol missing from a font is drawn as an empty box — the text is still correct, it just cannot be drawn.
Expect empty boxes. Most fonts do not include this character at all. It will render through a system fallback font if one exists — otherwise the reader sees a box.
Symbols people confuse with ☮
These look alike but are different characters — different codes, different fonts, sometimes different meaning.
Other marks and signs
Relatives of this character. Each has its own page with origin, typing and font coverage.
Dingbats and signs
Stars, snowflakes, scissors, checkmarks — the printer’s ornament set.