Hello,
I'm looking for community input on a topic I believe has merit: adding the Emoji property to U+272F (PINWHEEL STAR) to serve as the Druze Star emoji. To be clear, U+272F was not originally encoded to represent the Druze Star — it was encoded as a decorative dingbat. However, the glyph is visually similar to the Druze Star, and I believe it could serve that purpose with the right emoji name, annotations, and keywords to clarify its religious significance. This is not without precedent — several characters in the Dingbats and Miscellaneous Symbols blocks were originally encoded as generic typographic symbols and later took on specific cultural or religious meaning when elevated to emoji status. The Druze Star is the central religious symbol of the Druze faith, a community of over one million people worldwide. Currently, there is no emoji that represents this community, while comparable religious symbols have already been elevated from existing Unicode characters to emoji via the Emoji property and VS16 (U+FE0F): - U+2721 ✡ Star of David - U+262A ☪ Star and Crescent - U+271D ✝ Latin Cross - U+2638 ☸ Wheel of Dharma - U+262C ☬ Khanda - U+1F549 🕉 Om The technical path is clean — no new codepoint needed, just the Emoji property assignment and VS16 support. The selection factors are also favorable: it fills a completeness gap in religious symbol coverage, the character already exists, and the Druze Star is visually distinctive and actively used by the community. I'd welcome any thoughts from the community. Is there a technical concern with this approach? Has a similar case of repurposing a dingbat for cultural representation been discussed before? And if anyone from the UTC or ESC has guidance on the best way to move this forward, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thank you, Mufeed
