Om, or Aum (ΰ₯, ποΈ) β the sacred syllable shared by Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, where the same sound is read differently in each tradition. Click any symbol to copy it instantly.
Om, also spelled Aum, is a sacred sound and symbol central to several Indian religions. Unicode encodes it two ways. The first is ΰ₯ (U+0950 DEVANAGARI OM), a cursive ligature in the Devanagari script that fuses the letters a (ΰ€ ) and u (ΰ€) with a nasal chandrabindu; it was added in Unicode 1.1 back in 1993. The second is ποΈ (U+1F549 OM SYMBOL), a standalone pictographic glyph defined as "independent of Devanagari font" and added far later, in Unicode 7.0 (2014), then taken up as an emoji in 2015 β the same glyph the Khanda symbol page already displays as a related mark. The syllable is chanted at the start or end of prayers, mantras, and yoga practice, but its meaning is not uniform across faiths: Hindu tradition often describes it as the primordial sound of the universe and an expression of ultimate reality; in Buddhism it opens mantras such as Om mani padme hum, linked to the bodhisattva of compassion; and in Jainism it is understood as a condensed form of the Panch Parmeshthi, the five supreme beings. This page reports that documented usage without ranking the traditions.
Three Unicode characters for Om: the Devanagari script ligature, the standalone pictographic OM SYMBOL, and the distinct Jain Om.
Symbols commonly displayed alongside Om in yoga, meditation, and dharmic contexts.
Symbols from other traditions that pair well with faith and identity content.
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