About Nazar Amulet
Nazar Amulet is the Unicode character 🧿 at codepoint U+1F9FF in the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP).
Reference
The last character in its block. U+1F9FF sits at the very end of Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs, which runs to U+1F9FF and has no free positions in its 256; it dates from Unicode 11.0, has general category So and carries Emoji_Presentation. Unicode's test data files it under other objects, a nine-member subgroup that also holds the coffin, the headstone, the funeral urn and — added three years later in a different block — U+1FAAC HAMSA, the other protective object in the standard. The chart gives it no annotation and no cross-reference. CLDR's seven keywords are amulet, bead, blue, charm, evil-eye, nazar and talisman, so the everyday name for it is recorded there and not in the character's own name.
Typical uses
- Protection and luck, which is what talisman, charm and amulet describe
- Contexts about the object itself, which is what the standard named
- Decorative use, where the shape does the work
At a glance
- U+1F9FF, Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs; Unicode 11.0; general category So
- Emoji version E11.0; Emoji_Presentation, so no U+FE0F is needed
- The final assigned position in its block
- No chart annotation; CLDR carries evil-eye as a keyword, the name does not
- No HTML named entity. Write 🧿 or 🧿
Historical Notes
Origins
What the object is and what it is for is a question about the object, not about the codepoint. The point the encoding makes is narrower: the standard named the amulet, and the phrase most people use names the thing it is meant to ward off.
Unicode
Added in Unicode 11.0, published in 2018, and shipped as emoji version E11.0. An encyclopaedia article on the object states the same thing independently — that the nazar was added to Unicode as U+1F9FF NAZAR AMULET in 2018 — which is a rare case of an outside source citing a codepoint and a year that match the property file exactly.
Where a name and a search term come apart
Unicode names are fixed at publication and are chosen to describe what is depicted. CLDR keywords are chosen so that people find the character, which is a different job. Here the two diverge in an instructive way: the character's name is the amulet, while the keyword list carries evil-eye — the term most searches will use, and the one that names the curse rather than the defence against it. Neither file is wrong; they answer different questions, and here the difference is a whole reversal of meaning.
Developer Notes
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How to Use Nazar Amulet
To use the Nazar Amulet symbol (🧿) in HTML, insert the
entity 🧿 directly into your markup. The decimal entity 🧿 works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\1F9FF';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u{1F9FF}' evaluates to 🧿. In Python source, write '\U0001F9FF'.
The character encodes to F0 9F A7 BF as UTF-8 bytes and D83E DDFF as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 129535.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.
Things to know
- A 2018 character, so pre-2018 emoji fonts have nothing to draw for it.
- The last assigned codepoint of its block, so nothing follows it there — the next emoji additions went to a different block entirely.
- Outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, so a surrogate pair D83E DDFF in UTF-16 and a naive character count of two.
- Not Emoji_Modifier_Base and not a variation-sequence base.
- East Asian Width Wide; line break class ID.
- No named HTML entity. Write 🧿 or 🧿.
In the Wild
One encyclopaedia article about the object uses this character twice, and both are worth quoting. One is the sentence recording the encoding — that the nazar was added to Unicode as U+1F9FF NAZAR AMULET in 2018 — and the other is a citation in the reference list, where the character opens the title of a page about the emoji.
So the article uses the character only when writing about the character. A separate article on the belief it relates to contains none of it at all.
Pages change; this is what those showed on the day.
FAQ
Is this the evil eye?
The standard names it the amulet. CLDR records evil-eye as a keyword, which is how people search for it, but the character depicts the object rather than the curse.
What is the other protective object in the standard?
U+1FAAC HAMSA, added at emoji version E14.0. It sits in the same subgroup and a different block.
Why is nothing encoded after it in its block?
Because it holds the block's last position. Later additions went to Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A.
Is there an HTML entity?
No named one. Write 🧿 or 🧿.