Did you know that
Unicode's
CJK Unified Ideographs (i.e. the
Chinese characters) include a
swastika? It appears at hex 534D (decimal 21325), and as
JIS hex D2C4 and
Shift-JIS hex 99C2.
Granted, it isn't a Nazi swastika. Rather, it's a kanji/hanzi/hanja and a symbol of Buddhism, called manji in Japanese, wàn in Pinyin Chinese, and man in Korean. The main difference is that the Western swastika's arms point clockwise, while the Oriental swastika's arms point counter-clockwise. That is to say:
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Buddhist Nazi/Hindu/
Western
Many
maps in the
CJK sphere use this "backwards swastika" to denote the location of Buddhist
temples, and it can also be seen on
gravestones and as an integral part of the
Falun in
Falun Gong.
The character and Sino-Japanese term is also used to describe what we would call "gammadions" and "fylfots" in English.