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Exceptions to this include characters in certain writing systems that are also in use as political or religious symbols, such as 卐 (U+5350), the swastika encoded as a Chinese character (although it is also encoded as a religious symbol at U+0FD5); or ॐ (U+0950), the Om symbol which is, strictly speaking, a Devanagari ligature.
The Chi-Rho symbol. The Chi Rho ( ☧, English pronunciation / ˈkaɪ ˈroʊ /; also known as chrismon[ 1]) is one of the earliest forms of the Christogram, formed by superimposing the first two (capital) letters— chi and rho ( ΧΡ )—of the Greek ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ( rom: Christos) in such a way that the vertical stroke of the rho intersects ...
Christian cross variants. 7th-century Byzantine solidus, showing Leontius holding a globus cruciger, with a stepped cross on the obverse side. Double-barred cross symbol as used in a 9th-century Byzantine seal. Greek cross ( Church of Saint Sava) and Latin cross ( St. Paul's cathedral) in church floorplans. The Christian cross, with or without ...
Christogram. A Christogram ( Latin: Monogramma Christi) [ a] is a monogram or combination of letters that forms an abbreviation for the name of Jesus Christ, traditionally used as a religious symbol within the Christian Church . One of the oldest Christograms is the Chi-Rho (☧). It consists of the superimposed Greek letters chi (Χ) and rho ...
The swastika symbol ( Lithuanian: sūkurėlis) is a traditional Baltic ornament, [ 115][ 178] found on relics dating from at least the 13th century. [ 179] The swastika for Lithuanians represent the history and memory of their Lithuanians ancestors as well as the Baltic people at large. [ 179]
A dagger, obelisk, or obelus † is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used. [ 1] The symbol is also used to indicate death (of people) or extinction (of species or languages). [ 2] It is one of the modern descendants of the obelus, a mark used historically by scholars as a critical or ...
The Christian cross, seen as a representation of the crucifixion of Jesus on a large wooden cross, is a symbol of Christianity. [1] It is related to the crucifix (a cross that includes a corpus, usually a three-dimensional with representation of Jesus' body) and to the more general family of cross symbols, the term cross itself being detached from the original specifically Christian meaning in ...
The Cross of Saint Peter, also known as the Petrine Cross, is an inverted Latin cross traditionally used as a Christian symbol, but in recent times, it has also been used as an anti-Christian and Satanic symbol. In Christianity, it is associated with the martyrdom of Saint Peter. The symbol originates from the Catholic tradition that when ...