“☪” meaning: star and crescent Emoji

The star and crescent is an iconographic symbol used in various historical contexts, prominently as a symbol of the Ottoman Empire, with numerous modern countries still using it as a national symbol. It was developed at the Kingdom of Pontus during the Hellenistic period. It is also often considered as a symbol of Islam by extension. It is the conjoined representation of a crescent and a star, both elements have a long prior history in the iconography of the Ancient Near East as representing either the Sun and Moon or the Moon and Morning Star (or their divine personifications). Coins with crescent and star symbols represented separately have a longer history, with possible ties to older Mesopotamian iconography. The star, or Sun, is often shown within the arc of the crescent (also called star in crescent, or star within crescent, for disambiguation of depictions of a star and a crescent side by side); In numismatics in particular, the term crescent and pellet is used in cases where the star is simplified to a single dot.The combination is found comparatively rarely in late medieval and early modern heraldry. It rose to prominence with its adoption as the flag and national symbol of the Ottoman Empire and some of its administrative divisions (eyalets and vilayets) and later in the 19th-century Westernizing tanzimat (reforms). The Ottoman flag of 1844, with a white ay-yıldız (Turkish for "crescent-star") on a red background, continues to be in use as the flag of the Republic of Turkey, with minor modifications. Other states formerly part of the Ottoman Empire also used the symbol, including Libya (1951–1969 and after 2011), Tunisia (1831) and Algeria (1958). The same symbol was used in other national flags introduced during the 20th century, including the flags of Azerbaijan (1918), Pakistan (1947), Malaysia (1948), Singapore (1959), Mauritania (1959), Uzbekistan (1991), Turkmenistan (1991), Comoros (2001). In the later 20th century, the star and crescent have acquired a popular interpretation as a "symbol of Islam", occasionally embraced by Arab nationalism or Islamism in the 1970s to 1980s, but often rejected as erroneous or unfounded by Muslim commentators in more recent times.Unicode introduced a "star and crescent" character in its Miscellaneous Symbols block, at U+262A (☪). 🔗 Star and crescent
🌐: هلال ونجمة, Aypara və ulduz rəmzi, Polumjesec i zvijezda, Stjerne og halvmåne, Creciente y estrella, ماه و ستاره, Étoile et croissant, כוכב וסהר, Polumjesec i zvijezda, Bintang dan bulan sabit, Mezzaluna e stella, 초승달과 별, Bulan sabit dan bintang, Wassende maan en ster, Estrela e crescente, Steaua și semiluna, Звезда и полумесяц, Звезда и полумесец, Hilal ve yıldız, Зірка і півмісяць, 星月.