While the power symbol made it into Unicode in 2015, it's been around for much longer. The goal in moving it to Unicode was to add a crucial symbol used around the world by the masses.

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Three symbols were adopted for power, including the familiar one, the aforementioned enclosed circle, and the waning crescent Moon for sleep. The IEEE standardized these in IEEE Standard 1621.