Icon request: jain-om

[ManasMadrecha]

What can it be used for? It represents Jainism religion's Om version.

Example image (optional) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Om_ja%C3%AFn_orange.svg

UNICODE A8FD: ꣽ

Icon request checklist

• [x] This is a single icon or matched pair (Ex: lock / unlock)
• [x] The title starts with "Icon request: " and is followed by the requested icon name (Ex: Icon request: magical-unicorn)
• [x] I have searched for existing issues and to the best of my knowledge this is not a duplicate
• [x] I have included at least one example image if it could be helpful (optional)
• [x] The request is for a concrete object (it's harder to make an icon to represent happiness, it's easier to make a smiley face. ☺)

[tagliala]

Hi!

Thanks for being part of the Font Awesome Community.

I can see that this symbol is different from #3522, but we have the same title

Could you please elaborate the differences and provide a different title for this request, if it is not a duplicate?

[ManasMadrecha]

The already existing ॐ is called om which basically denotes God.

But, the above image though pronounced as om, has totally different history, connotation, meaning, etc. It relates to Jainism religion, whereas ॐ relates to Hinduism religion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism

The jain-om represents a combination of 5 alphabets A + A + A + U + M (the panch paramesthi or five supreme beings),

1. Arihant
2. Asharira (siddha)
3. Acharya
4. Upadhyaya
5. Muni

(Their translations and more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pañca-Parameṣṭhi#Overview)

So, merging of A + A + A + U + M results in pronunciation same as Om, but it denotes something totally different.

More info can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om#Jainism

Title

It can be jain-om or jainism-om. The former is preferable as in Unicode A8FD ꣽ DEVANAGARI JAIN OM, note that it is called jain-om

---

Need

1. the normal Om can be written easily on keyboard using windows + . like this ॐ, whereas there's genuine need for the jain-om to have an icon.
2. Currently, there is not a single icon for Jainism religion in the nonetheless awesome library of FontAwesome. So, having jain-om would be a good start.

[tagliala]

Thanks for the thorough clarification

[sensibleworld]

This is a quick update to let folks know that we’re refining our icon request workflow behind the scenes, and as part of that we’re going through all open requests and filing them into several new buckets to be addressed.

In this case we’re closing this issue because we think it might be too niche, or just not a good fit for Font Awesome.

But if you feel really strongly about it, feel free to make your case by submitting a new issue.