Peace and Wellbeing Symbols
Five characters, and five is the whole of it — four emblems and one figure from a divination system. What these marks mean to the traditions that use them is not this page's subject; what follows is what the characters are.
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The five
U+2625 ANKH is a cross with a loop at the top. U+262E PEACE SYMBOL is a circle enclosing a vertical stroke and two diagonals. U+262F YIN YANG is a circle divided by an S-curve. U+2638 WHEEL OF DHARMA is a spoked wheel. U+4DCA HEXAGRAM FOR PEACE is six stacked lines, each of them solid or broken.
All five are general category So, Symbol Other, and three bytes in UTF-8. None has a decomposition, so normalisation of any form leaves all five exactly as they were — not true of every set on this site.
Four emblems, filed together by category rather than by subject
The ankh, the peace symbol, the yin yang and the wheel of dharma come from four unrelated traditions. Unicode has not grouped them by what they mean. It has grouped them by being marks rather than letters, which is why they land within twenty codepoints of each other, from U+2625 to U+2638. The chess pieces, the card suits and the weather signs sit in the same stretch on either side.
When you look a character up, remember that a neighbouring codepoint is not a related character.
The hexagram is the odd one out
U+4DCA HEXAGRAM FOR PEACE is not an emblem. It is one figure from a divination system in which every figure is six stacked lines, each solid or broken, and its Unicode name is the name of that figure. That is the only reason a search for peace characters returns it.
It is the mechanical outlier too: the only one of the five with East Asian width W, so it takes two cells where the other four take one, and a list mixing them will not line up. It also sits immediately before the CJK ideographs, in a range a font chosen for Latin text has no reason to cover — and a missing glyph shows as a box rather than as nothing.
What is not here, and why
Om is absent, and the reason is a category one. Om is written as a letter in four scripts — Devanagari, Gujarati, Tamil and Tibetan, with a second Jain form in Devanagari — and those characters are Lo, Letter Other. They belong to writing rather than to a row of marks.
The difference is not cosmetic. A letter is a word character: a \w regex matches it, a validator that allows letters only accepts it, and a search tokenizer can join it to the word beside it. Not one of the five symbols above passes any of those three tests. So if you want om, you want the letter for the script you are writing in, and it goes in the text rather than in this grid. A name search for the word also returns a Bopomofo letter and a Korean syllable that are unrelated.
Where they break
A field that strips non-ASCII removes all five without a trace, and a column that accepts up to three-byte sequences keeps every one of them. If a platform substitutes a colour emoji font for U+262E or U+262F, what appears is that platform’s picture rather than the monochrome glyph; a variation selector can request the text form, but it is a separate invisible character, so a field that strips non-ASCII removes the selector and keeps the symbol.
Nearby
The ankh is a cross before it is anything else, and the other crosses are on cross symbols. The crescent-and-star character people expect to find here is on sun, moon and planet symbols. Both are indexed on symbols to copy and paste.