Saint John's Arms

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Saint John's Arms, also called the Saint Hannes cross, is an ancient symbol of luck.

The symbol is sometimes found in Scandinavia as an ornament on viking age artifacts and is used in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Norway and Sweden as a symbol (on roadsigns and the like) of "sites of historical or touristic interest", e.g. church ruins, museums, interesting natural formations, etc. A Saint John's arms symbol decorates a 1000-year-old, pre-Christian wooden ski that was found in Finland.

In computing, it has been used on the Apple Macintosh's keyboard as the symbol for the command key. Its Unicode code is U+2318: ⌘. Unicode standards documents call it the Place of Interest Sign.