☯️ Yin Yang

Unicode lists ☯️ Yin Yang among the religious symbols in the Symbols group. Typical contexts are difficult, lives, religion and tao. Further official keywords are taoist, total, yang and yin.

You can drop ☯️ into chats, social posts, headlines or a bio. On SmileyZone it is filed under Religion and Belief. It joined the standard with Emoji 0.7 in 2010, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+262F.

• ☯️ works as a one-character reply when difficult is the subject.
• Fits messages about difficult, lives, religion and tao.
• Often seen near ✝️ Latin Cross, ✡️ Star of David and ☸️ Wheel of Dharma.

The taijitu comes from Chinese Daoism and shows yin and yang: two forces that do not fight each other but require each other. The small dot in each half is the point – every principle contains the seed of its opposite.

In the West the sign is usually shortened to “balance” or “opposites”. That is not wrong, but it loses the core: this is not about balance as a state, it is about constant change.

• ☯️✝️ – Yin Yang and Latin Cross
• ☯️☪️ – Yin Yang with Star and Crescent
• ☯️☦️ – Yin Yang plus Orthodox Cross
• ☯️🔯 – Yin Yang and Dotted Six-Pointed Star
• ☯️⚛️ – Yin Yang with Atom Symbol
• ☯️✡️ – Yin Yang plus Star of David
• ☯️🕎 – Yin Yang and Menorah
• ☯️☮️ – Yin Yang with Peace Symbol

Easy to mix up with ✝️ Latin Cross, ✡️ Star of David or ☸️ Wheel of Dharma. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.