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✡ U+2721, ✡ STAR OF DAVID ← ✠ [U+2720] Dingbats ✢ → [U+2722]

Translingual

Presentations of ✡︎

Text style	Emoji style
✡︎	✡️
Note: Character's appearance may be different on each system. Text style is forced with ︎ and emoji style with ️

Description

A hexagram (six-pointed star formed by overlapping two equilateral triangles).

Etymology

The precise origin of the use of it as a Jewish symbol remains unknown, but it apparently emerged in the context of medieval Jewish protective amulets (segulot).The Jewish Encyclopedia cites a 12th-century Karaite document as the earliest Jewish literary source to mention the symbol.[1]

Symbol

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1. Judaism or Jewish identity.
2. Indicates a synagogue.

Usage notes

This shape is generically called a hexagram (and has a wider array of definitions), but this specific symbol has been labelled by Unicode for use as the Star of David.

References

1. "Magen Dawid", Jewish Encyclopida , retrieved 2010 May 28.