Wikipedia links it to Fortune-telling for some reason? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🔯 but doesn’t elaborate?

emojis wiki says it’s something to do with buddhism? https://emojis.wiki/dotted-six-pointed-star/

It’s a really weird symbol

Also found this reddit thread with explanations all over the place https://www.reddit.com/r/Emoji/comments/16buwk0/meaning_of_dotted_sixpointed_star/

The unicode explanation simply says “SIX POINTED STAR WITH MIDDLE DOT” (very helpful) (not)

and the official chart has an arrow to the star of david and that’s it https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf

  • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Nah I was just legitimately confused by the phrasing. It having two meanings doesn’t really qualify it as weird either imo. Lots of old symbols have had multiple meanings, I’d wager all of them even.