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YIN YANG

[U+262E]
Miscellaneous Symbols
[U+2630]

Translingual

Symbol

  1. The Great Monad, used in the West as a generic yin-yang symbol since the 1960s
    Synonym:
  2. Marks a Taoist shrine on a map
  3. tai chi chuan

Usage notes

The Unicode form is a dotted variant of the 太極圖太极图 (tàijítú) that was introduced during the Ming Dynasty and originally called 河圖河图 (“he tu”). The modern name in Chinese is 太极兩儀图.