What is the difference between Wheel Of Dharma and Helm Symbol?

Wheel Of Dharma is U+2638 in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Helm Symbol is U+2388 in the Miscellaneous Technical block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Wheel Of Dharma?

The HTML entity for Wheel Of Dharma (U+2638) is ☸.

What is the HTML entity for Helm Symbol?

The HTML entity for Helm Symbol (U+2388) is ⎈.

Are Wheel Of Dharma and Helm Symbol the same Unicode character?

No. Wheel Of Dharma is U+2638 (decimal 9784) and Helm Symbol is U+2388 (decimal 9096). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Wheel Of Dharma and Helm Symbol?

Wheel Of Dharma (U+2638) encodes as E2 98 B8 in UTF-8. Helm Symbol (U+2388) encodes as E2 8E 88 in UTF-8.

Wheel Of Dharma vs Helm Symbol

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

☸

Wheel Of Dharma

U+2638

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⎈

Helm Symbol

U+2388

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Property Comparison

Property	Wheel Of Dharma	Helm Symbol
Codepoint	`U+2638`	`U+2388`
Decimal	`9784`	`9096`
HTML Entity	`☸`	`⎈`
HTML Decimal	`☸`	`⎈`
HTML Hex	`☸`	`⎈`
UTF-8	`E2 98 B8`	`E2 8E 88`
UTF-16	`26 38`	`23 88`
UTF-32	`00002638`	`00002388`
CSS Escape	`\2638`	`\2388`
JS Escape	`\u2638`	`\u2388`
Python Escape	`\u2638`	`\u2388`
URL Encoded	`%E2%98%B8`	`%E2%8E%88`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Other Symbol (So)`
Block	`Miscellaneous Symbols`	`Miscellaneous Technical`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`3.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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