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Yin Yang Emoji ☯️

The Taoist Tai Chi symbol — a black-and-white circle split into two swirling teardrops, each holding a dot of the other's color. It represents balance and duality, opposites that need each other, used well beyond its Chinese philosophical roots for any "two sides of the same coin" idea.

What ☯️ means

A circular symbol with a white vertical teardrop described with a dark dot, covering the upper portion of the symbol and a 'vice versa' replication of the same design on the lower side.

The ☯️ Yin Yang emoji, also known as the 'Tai Chi symbol' is a reference to Chinese philosophy It signifies duality, balance, harmony, unity, dependency, and equal interdependence as well.

How and when to use it

If you're indicating 'duality' in your post captions or explaining why 'bad people have a good side too', you can use ☯️. For example, "There's darkness in light and light in darkness. It all exists together, as one ☯️"
Similarly, if your post caption is striking a balance, if you're sharing a spiritual post/repost on the importance of balance, both physically and spiritually, welcome the ☯️. Like, "Nothing's ever completely one thing. There's always a balance between many things ☯️".
While advising someone on 'harmony', sharing a picture with a caption about the same, or even if you're just putting up a social media status about harmony, ensure to use ☯️.
Since ☯️ is a representation or a symbol of ancient Chinese philosophy, it could be incorporated in contexts that are either about Chinese culture or Chinese spirituality, or both.

Other Names

☯️ Yin Yang Symbol
☯️ Traditional Chinese Religions
☯️ Taoism
☯️ Confucianism
☯️ Chinese Philosophy
☯️ Duality
☯️ Balance
☯️ Symbol of Harmony
☯️ Tai Chi
☯️ Tai Chi Symbol
☯️ Chi Energy

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › religion
Codepoints: U+262F U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.7
Shortcodes: :yin_yang: GitHub
Keywords: difficult, lives, religion, tao, taoist, total, yang, yin, yinyang

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.