Spiral Symbol Copy Paste

Copy ꩜ in one tap, or take the swirl emoji 🌀, the smaller 𖦹, ➰ or a ready-made row.

꩜Cham punctuation spiralU+AA5CReady to copy

54 spirals and swirls. Tap any value to copy it.

54 spirals and swirls. A character and its name both copy the character. A code copies the code.
Character	Name	Code point	HTML
	U+AA5C. The spiral that is plain text: it takes the colour and size of the words around it. In the Cham script of Vietnam and Cambodia it marks the beginning of a section. Added in version 5.1 (2008). It has no Alt code, no named HTML entity and no LaTeX macro: ꩜ in HTML.
	U+1F300. The swirl emoji. Its official name is Cyclone, with Unicode's aliases typhoon, hurricane, and the emoji list calls it cyclone too. It came into Unicode from the emoji sets of Japanese phone carriers. It has no text style, so it is always a picture. Added in version 6.0 (2010). 🌀 in HTML.
	U+169B9. A small, even spiral that is plain text. It is a letter of the Bamum scripts, which King Ibrahim Njoya created between 1896 and 1910 in what is now western Cameroon. Phase-E in the name is the last stage of the script in which the letter appears. Added in version 6.0 (2010).
	U+27B0. One loop in a line. Unicode's alias: kururi. It came into Unicode from the emoji sets of Japanese phone carriers. It has a text style, listed under Swirl emoji. Added in version 6.0 (2010).
	U+1F365. Narutomaki: a slice of Japanese fish cake with a pink spiral, which is meant to resemble the Naruto whirlpools. A common topping on ramen. The emoji list calls it fish cake with swirl. It came into Unicode from the emoji sets of Japanese phone carriers.
	U+1F635 U+200D U+1F4AB. Dizzy face joined to the dizzy emoji, which together draw a face with a spiral for each eye. Added to the emoji list in Emoji 13.1. An app that does not know the sequence shows the two parts side by side.
	U+0E51. A digit, not a symbol: the Thai numeral for 1. Its stroke curls in on itself like a small spiral, and kaomoji borrow it, as in (๑ˇεˇ๑).
	U+0040. The spiral on every keyboard. Italian calls it chiocciola and Ukrainian ravlyk, both meaning snail. Swedish has kanelbulle, cinnamon roll, and Japanese slang has narutomaki, after the fish cake 🍥. &commat; in HTML.
	Made of U+AA5C. ꩜ three times in one copy, for a divider or a bio.
	Made of U+A9C1, U+AA5C and U+A9C2. ꩜ between the two Javanese rerenggan, marks that frame titles. Put a name where the spiral is to frame the name instead.
	U+1F41A. The emoji list calls it spiral shell too. Many shells form a logarithmic spiral, as Christopher Wren observed. It came into Unicode from the emoji sets of Japanese phone carriers.
	U+1F5D2 U+FE0F. Spiral in the name only: the spiral is the wire binding of the pad. The emoji list calls it spiral notepad. Added in version 7.0 (2014).
	U+1F5D3 U+FE0F. Spiral in the name only: a tear-off calendar on a wire binding. The emoji list calls it spiral calendar. Added in version 7.0 (2014).
	U+11669. A birga marks the start of a book, chapter, passage or first line in the Mongolian script. This is one of the variant birgas of the Mongolian Supplement block. Added in version 9.0 (2016).
	U+1166A. The swirl birga with one ornament stroke beside it. Added in version 9.0 (2016).
	U+1166B. The swirl birga with two ornament strokes. Added in version 9.0 (2016).
	U+1166C. The same mark turned round, with its two ornament strokes on the other side. Added in version 9.0 (2016).
	U+1F40C. A snail under its spiral shell. Unicode's note: fifth of the signs of the Asian zodiac, used in Kazakhstan. Italian and Ukrainian name the @ sign after it. It came into Unicode from the emoji sets of Japanese phone carriers.
	U+1F36D. A lollipop of swirled hard candy on a stick. Other emoji sets have their own drawings, so look at what arrives.
	U+1F4AB. The emoji list calls it dizzy. Unicode's aliases: circling stars, squeans. It is the second half of the face with spiral eyes.
	U+1F32A U+FE0F. Unicode's aliases: tornado, twister. The emoji list calls it tornado. A funnel of wind, for when swirl means weather. Added in version 7.0 (2014).
	U+27BF. Two loops in a line. The emoji list calls it double curly loop. Added in version 6.0 (2010).
	U+27B0 U+FE0E. ➰ followed by U+FE0E, which asks for a plain text drawing in place of the picture.
	U+1F9EC. The emoji list calls it dna. Strictly a helix is not a spiral: its loops keep one diameter, where the loops of a spiral widen. Everyday speech calls both spirals. Added in version 11.0 (2018).
	U+0ED1. A digit: the Lao numeral for 1, drawn as one curled stroke.
	U+0D6D. A digit: the Malayalam numeral for 7, drawn as a curl that winds inward.
	U+0B21. A consonant of the Oriya script, borrowed for the curl inside its round body.
	U+0D9C. A letter of the Sinhala script, borrowed for its two curls. Unicode's alias: sinhala letter ga.
	U+0E5B. A spiral with a zigzag tail. Unicode's note: used to mark end of chapter or document.
	U+17DA. The Khmer counterpart of the Thai khomut, which Unicode cross-references to it. Unicode's note: indicates the end of a book or treatise.
	U+0F04. A swirl that opens a Tibetan text. Unicode's note: honorific; marks beginning of text or start of new folio. Unicode cross-references the Mongolian birga to it.
	U+A9C1. The left half of a pair of flourishes. Rerenggan are often purely decorative marks of the Javanese script, used to frame titles or sections of text.
	U+A9C2. The right half of the pair: ꧁ opens and ꧂ closes.
	U+13362. A coil of rope, V1 in Gardiner's sign list, and the Egyptian numeral for 100. Unicode's note: logogram (100) : šn.t. Unicode also warns: not to be confused with U+133F2, the next row. It needs a hieroglyph font.
	U+133F2. A curl that writes the sound w. Unicode's note: phonemogram : w. Not to be confused with the coil of rope, U+13362. It needs a hieroglyph font.
	U+25CE. Rings, not a spiral: two circles round one centre, where a spiral is one line that winds outward. Unicode cross-references the emoji direct hit.
	Made of U+0040 and U+005F. The Japanese-style emoticon (@_@), listed as amazed, here without its brackets so that it fits the table. The two at signs are the eyes.
	Made of U+AA5C and U+005F. The same face with ꩜ for each eye: a plain text stand-in for the face with spiral eyes.
	Made of U+AA5C and U+1F300. The text spiral and the swirl emoji in one copy, to see which of the two a screen draws.
	Made of U+1F300. 🌀 three times in one copy.
	Made of U+169B9. 𖦹 three times in one copy, a finer line than ꩜꩜꩜.
	Made of U+27B0. ➰ three times in one copy, which reads as a coiled cord.
	Made of U+0E51 and U+AA5C. ꩜ with the Thai digit ๑ on each side.
	Made of U+007E and U+AA5C. ꩜ with a tilde on each side, every part of it plain text.
	Made of U+13362. Three coils of rope. One coil is the Egyptian numeral for 100, and multiples were written by repeating the sign, so three of them write 300.
	U+11F4E. Punctuation of the Kawi, or Old Javanese, script, which was used across Maritime Southeast Asia between the 8th and the 16th century. Added in version 15.0 (2022).
	U+11F4F. By its name, the closing form of U+11F4E. Added in version 15.0 (2022).
	U+1CC7C. A spiral with square corners, one of four. They are in the block Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement, graphic characters of home computers of the 1970s and 1980s. Added in version 16.0 (2024).
	U+1CC7D. The second of the four square spirals. Added in version 16.0 (2024).
	U+1CC7E. The third of the four square spirals. Added in version 16.0 (2024).
	U+1CC7F. The fourth of the four square spirals. Added in version 16.0 (2024).
	U+1D952. A movement symbol of Sutton SignWriting, a writing system for sign languages. Unicode files it under Movement indicators. Added in version 8.0 (2015).
	U+1D953. The double form of the SignWriting arm spiral. Added in version 8.0 (2015).
	U+1D954. The triple form of the SignWriting arm spiral. Added in version 8.0 (2015).

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How it works

The spiral symbol is ꩜, Cham punctuation spiral, U+AA5C: plain text that takes the colour of your words. Row two is the swirl emoji 🌀, whose official name is Cyclone. The 54 rows include all 18 characters that Unicode names spiral or swirl.

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Text spiral or swirl emoji

꩜ and 𖦹 are text, so they follow the colour and size of your words. 🌀, ➰, 🍥 and 😵‍💫 are emoji and draw as pictures. For a swirly shape that every font has, @ curls the same way, and ๑ is a Thai digit that does too. ꩜꩜꩜ and ꧁꩜꧂ are ready rows.

Codes for the spiral

No row has an Alt code, an Option key or a LaTeX macro, and only @ has a named HTML entity, &commat;. In HTML, ꩜ is ꩜ or ꩜, 🌀 is 🌀 or 🌀, and 𖦹 is 𖦹 or 𖦹.

Tips

Copy the row Both swirls, ꩜🌀, and paste it where you will post: what arrives shows which of the two that screen draws.
To frame a name, copy ꧁꩜꧂ and type the name over the spiral: the two Javanese marks stay on each side.
😵‍💫 is two emoji joined together. Where it arrives as 😵💫, the app does not know the pair: use ꩜_꩜ instead.

Questions and answers

What is the swirl emoji called?

Its Unicode name is Cyclone, U+1F300, with the aliases typhoon and hurricane, and the emoji list calls it cyclone. It has been in Unicode since version 6.0 in 2010. It has no text style, so 🌀 is always drawn as a picture.

Is there a spiral or swirl text symbol that is not an emoji?

Yes. ꩜, U+AA5C, is punctuation of the Cham script, and 𖦹, U+169B9, is a Bamum letter. Neither has the Emoji property, so both are plain text and take the colour and size of the text around them.

Why does the spiral show as an empty box?

A device draws ꩜ only when one of its fonts covers the Cham block, which Unicode added in 2008. Where it fails, try 𖦹, 🌀 or @, which is on every keyboard. The nine rows of the last group are the likeliest to fail.

What does the ꩜ symbol mean?

In the Cham script, which writes the Cham language of Vietnam and Cambodia, ꩜ marks the beginning of a section. Outside Cham text it carries no meaning of its own, which is why it works as a decoration.

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Bamum letter phase-E ngkaami U+169B9. A small, even spiral that is plain text. It is a letter of the Bamum scripts, which King Ibrahim Njoya created between 1896 and 1910 in what is now western Cameroon. Phase-E in the name is the last stage of the script in which the letter appears. Added in version 6.0 (2010).
Cham punctuation spiral U+AA5C. The spiral that is plain text: it takes the colour and size of the words around it. In the Cham script of Vietnam and Cambodia it marks the beginning of a section. Added in version 5.1 (2008). It has no Alt code, no named HTML entity and no LaTeX macro: ꩜ in HTML.
Commercial at U+0040. The spiral on every keyboard. Italian calls it chiocciola and Ukrainian ravlyk, both meaning snail. Swedish has kanelbulle, cinnamon roll, and Japanese slang has narutomaki, after the fish cake 🍥. &commat; in HTML.
Curly loop U+27B0. One loop in a line. Unicode's alias: kururi. It came into Unicode from the emoji sets of Japanese phone carriers. It has a text style, listed under Swirl emoji. Added in version 6.0 (2010).

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Cyclone U+1F300. The swirl emoji. Its official name is Cyclone, with Unicode's aliases typhoon, hurricane, and the emoji list calls it cyclone too. It came into Unicode from the emoji sets of Japanese phone carriers. It has no text style, so it is always a picture. Added in version 6.0 (2010). 🌀 in HTML.
Face with spiral eyes U+1F635 U+200D U+1F4AB. Dizzy face joined to the dizzy emoji, which together draw a face with a spiral for each eye. Added to the emoji list in Emoji 13.1. An app that does not know the sequence shows the two parts side by side.
Fish cake with swirl design U+1F365. Narutomaki: a slice of Japanese fish cake with a pink spiral, which is meant to resemble the Naruto whirlpools. A common topping on ramen. The emoji list calls it fish cake with swirl. It came into Unicode from the emoji sets of Japanese phone carriers.
Spiral in a frame Made of U+A9C1, U+AA5C and U+A9C2. ꩜ between the two Javanese rerenggan, marks that frame titles. Put a name where the spiral is to frame the name instead.
Thai digit one U+0E51. A digit, not a symbol: the Thai numeral for 1. Its stroke curls in on itself like a small spiral, and kaomoji borrow it, as in (๑ˇεˇ๑).
Three spirals Made of U+AA5C. ꩜ three times in one copy, for a divider or a bio.

Spiral or swirl by name 16

Kawi punctuation closing spiral U+11F4F. By its name, the closing form of U+11F4E. Added in version 15.0 (2022).
Kawi punctuation spiral U+11F4E. Punctuation of the Kawi, or Old Javanese, script, which was used across Maritime Southeast Asia between the 8th and the 16th century. Added in version 15.0 (2022).
Mongolian swirl birga U+11669. A birga marks the start of a book, chapter, passage or first line in the Mongolian script. This is one of the variant birgas of the Mongolian Supplement block. Added in version 9.0 (2016).
Mongolian swirl birga with double ornament U+1166B. The swirl birga with two ornament strokes. Added in version 9.0 (2016).
Mongolian swirl birga with ornament U+1166A. The swirl birga with one ornament stroke beside it. Added in version 9.0 (2016).
Mongolian turned swirl birga with double ornament U+1166C. The same mark turned round, with its two ornament strokes on the other side. Added in version 9.0 (2016).
SignWriting travel-wallplane arm spiral double U+1D953. The double form of the SignWriting arm spiral. Added in version 8.0 (2015).
SignWriting travel-wallplane arm spiral single U+1D952. A movement symbol of Sutton SignWriting, a writing system for sign languages. Unicode files it under Movement indicators. Added in version 8.0 (2015).
SignWriting travel-wallplane arm spiral triple U+1D954. The triple form of the SignWriting arm spiral. Added in version 8.0 (2015).
Spiral calendar pad, emoji style U+1F5D3 U+FE0F. Spiral in the name only: a tear-off calendar on a wire binding. The emoji list calls it spiral calendar. Added in version 7.0 (2014).
Spiral note pad, emoji style U+1F5D2 U+FE0F. Spiral in the name only: the spiral is the wire binding of the pad. The emoji list calls it spiral notepad. Added in version 7.0 (2014).
Spiral shell U+1F41A. The emoji list calls it spiral shell too. Many shells form a logarithmic spiral, as Christopher Wren observed. It came into Unicode from the emoji sets of Japanese phone carriers.
Square spiral from bottom left U+1CC7F. The fourth of the four square spirals. Added in version 16.0 (2024).
Square spiral from bottom right U+1CC7E. The third of the four square spirals. Added in version 16.0 (2024).
Square spiral from top left U+1CC7C. A spiral with square corners, one of four. They are in the block Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement, graphic characters of home computers of the 1970s and 1980s. Added in version 16.0 (2024).
Square spiral from top right U+1CC7D. The second of the four square spirals. Added in version 16.0 (2024).

Swirl emoji 7

Cloud with tornado, emoji style U+1F32A U+FE0F. Unicode's aliases: tornado, twister. The emoji list calls it tornado. A funnel of wind, for when swirl means weather. Added in version 7.0 (2014).
Curly loop, text style U+27B0 U+FE0E. ➰ followed by U+FE0E, which asks for a plain text drawing in place of the picture.
Dizzy symbol U+1F4AB. The emoji list calls it dizzy. Unicode's aliases: circling stars, squeans. It is the second half of the face with spiral eyes.
DNA double helix U+1F9EC. The emoji list calls it dna. Strictly a helix is not a spiral: its loops keep one diameter, where the loops of a spiral widen. Everyday speech calls both spirals. Added in version 11.0 (2018).
Double curly loop U+27BF. Two loops in a line. The emoji list calls it double curly loop. Added in version 6.0 (2010).
Lollipop U+1F36D. A lollipop of swirled hard candy on a stick. Other emoji sets have their own drawings, so look at what arrives.
Snail U+1F40C. A snail under its spiral shell. Unicode's note: fifth of the signs of the Asian zodiac, used in Kazakhstan. Italian and Ukrainian name the @ sign after it. It came into Unicode from the emoji sets of Japanese phone carriers.

Letters that curl 12

Bullseye U+25CE. Rings, not a spiral: two circles round one centre, where a spiral is one line that winds outward. Unicode cross-references the emoji direct hit.
Egyptian hieroglyph V001 U+13362. A coil of rope, V1 in Gardiner's sign list, and the Egyptian numeral for 100. Unicode's note: logogram (100) : šn.t. Unicode also warns: not to be confused with U+133F2, the next row. It needs a hieroglyph font.
Egyptian hieroglyph Z007 U+133F2. A curl that writes the sound w. Unicode's note: phonemogram : w. Not to be confused with the coil of rope, U+13362. It needs a hieroglyph font.
Javanese left rerenggan U+A9C1. The left half of a pair of flourishes. Rerenggan are often purely decorative marks of the Javanese script, used to frame titles or sections of text.
Javanese right rerenggan U+A9C2. The right half of the pair: ꧁ opens and ꧂ closes.
Khmer sign koomuut U+17DA. The Khmer counterpart of the Thai khomut, which Unicode cross-references to it. Unicode's note: indicates the end of a book or treatise.
Lao digit one U+0ED1. A digit: the Lao numeral for 1, drawn as one curled stroke.
Malayalam digit seven U+0D6D. A digit: the Malayalam numeral for 7, drawn as a curl that winds inward.
Oriya letter dda U+0B21. A consonant of the Oriya script, borrowed for the curl inside its round body.
Sinhala letter alpapraana gayanna U+0D9C. A letter of the Sinhala script, borrowed for its two curls. Unicode's alias: sinhala letter ga.
Thai character khomut U+0E5B. A spiral with a zigzag tail. Unicode's note: used to mark end of chapter or document.
Tibetan mark initial yig mgo mdun ma U+0F04. A swirl that opens a Tibetan text. Unicode's note: honorific; marks beginning of text or start of new folio. Unicode cross-references the Mongolian birga to it.

Rows and faces 9

Amazed face, in text Made of U+0040 and U+005F. The Japanese-style emoticon (@_@), listed as amazed, here without its brackets so that it fits the table. The two at signs are the eyes.
Both swirls Made of U+AA5C and U+1F300. The text spiral and the swirl emoji in one copy, to see which of the two a screen draws.
Spiral between two curls Made of U+0E51 and U+AA5C. ꩜ with the Thai digit ๑ on each side.
Spiral between waves Made of U+007E and U+AA5C. ꩜ with a tilde on each side, every part of it plain text.
Spiral eyes, in text Made of U+AA5C and U+005F. The same face with ꩜ for each eye: a plain text stand-in for the face with spiral eyes.
Three curly loops Made of U+27B0. ➰ three times in one copy, which reads as a coiled cord.
Three cyclones Made of U+1F300. 🌀 three times in one copy.
Three hundred, in hieroglyphs Made of U+13362. Three coils of rope. One coil is the Egyptian numeral for 100, and multiples were written by repeating the sign, so three of them write 300.
Three small spirals Made of U+169B9. 𖦹 three times in one copy, a finer line than ꩜꩜꩜.

How this list was compiled: Names, and the code points they belong to, are checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt, checked 2026-09-19), and printed in sentence case. Notes that say Unicode's note, Unicode's alias, Unicode files it or cross-references quote the headings, aliases, notes and cross-references of NamesList.txt of the same version (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt); the version a character was added in is from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt), block names are from Blocks.txt, the Emoji property and the text style and emoji style sequences are from emoji-data.txt and emoji-variation-sequences.txt of the same version, and the years are from https://www.unicode.org/history/publicationdates.html. HTML entity names are from https://html.spec.whatwg.org/entities.json, the HTML 4 name first where there is one, else the shortest. The last group holds characters that one ordinary computer had no font for on the day this list was checked; your device may differ. The group Spiral or swirl by name is complete: its 18 rows are every character of UnicodeData.txt 18.0.0 whose name has the word SPIRAL (13) or SWIRL (5). Emoji names and the face with spiral eyes (a fully-qualified sequence, Emoji 13.1) are from https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt; which emoji came from the Japanese carriers' sets is from https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/EmojiSources.txt (U+1F300, U+27B0, U+1F365, U+1F41A and U+1F40C have carrier codes there; U+27BF has none, so its row makes no such claim). Notes on scripts and objects, all checked on 2026-09-19: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cham_script (the spiral marks the beginning of a section; Vietnam and Cambodia), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamum_script (Ibrahim Njoya, 1896 to 1910, western Cameroon, what Phase-E in a name means), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narutomaki (the pink spiral, the Naruto whirlpools, ramen, the slang name for the at sign), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign (chiocciola, ravlyk, kanelbulle, narutomaki), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons ((@_@) listed as amazed, and the kaomoji (๑ˇεˇ๑)), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral (shells and the logarithmic spiral, Christopher Wren; helix against spiral), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script (what a birga marks), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javanese_script (rerenggan), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawi_script (where and when Kawi was used), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_numerals (the coil of rope, V1, is 100, and multiples repeat the sign), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing_Supplement (home computers of the 1970s and 1980s) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting (a writing system for sign languages). That a joined emoji sequence falls back to its separate emoji where it is not supported is from https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/ (checked 2026-09-19). Where a note says what a character looks like, it describes one render on 2026-09-19; other fonts draw it differently. 43612 is AA5C in decimal and 127744 is 1F300. What the lollipop emoji shows: https://emojipedia.org/lollipop, checked 2026-09-20. Licence: own work (facts from the Unicode Character Database, Unicode License v3, and from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in our own words; aliases and notes marked as Unicode's are quoted from NamesList.txt, Copyright © 1991-2026 Unicode, Inc., https://www.unicode.org/license.txt)