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War flag of Prussia (1816). The Black Cross (Schwarzes Kreuz) is the emblem used by the Prussian Army and Germany's army from 1871 to the present.It was designed on the occasion of the German Campaign of 1813, when Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia commissioned the Iron Cross as the first military decoration open to all ranks, including enlisted men.
Ostensibly religious symbols are, however, not limited to this section, as the same chart has another short section of two characters labelled "Syriac cross symbols", with the explanatory gloss "These symbols are used in liturgical texts of Syriac-speaking churches".
The Balkenkreuz has not been used by the post-WWII German military. However, the Iron Cross used by today's German Bundeswehr unified defense forces inherits the four white, or lighter-colored, "flanks" of the Balkenkreuz that do not "cap" the ends of the cross in either case, but with the "flanks" following the flared arms of the earlier German Empire's cross pattée (Eisernes Kreuz/iron ...
The exact correlation varied over time, and in early centuries bronze or electrum were sometimes found instead of mercury, or copper for Mars instead of iron; however, gold, silver, and lead had always been associated with the Sun, Moon, and Saturn. [note 1] The associations below are attested from the 7th century and had stabilized by the 15th ...
West Syriac cross ♰ U+2670 ♰ East Syriac cross ♱ U+2671 ♱ Universal recycling symbol ♲ U+2672 ♲ Recycling symbol for type-1 plastics ♳ U+2673 ♳ Recycling symbol for type-2 plastics ♴ U+2674 ♴ Recycling symbol for type-3 plastics ♵ U+2675 ♵ Recycling symbol for type-4 plastics ♶ U+2676 ♶ ...
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