♋
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Translingual
Alternative forms
The strokes coming from the circles may be straight and horizontal, or slightly curved, to forming arcs of a larger circle themselves.
Etymology
A pair of crab claws.
Symbol
♋︎
- (astrology) The symbol for the sign Cancer.
- (astronomy, rare) The symbol for the constellation Cancer.
- (rare) June[1]
- (alchemy, archaic) dissolve
- (botany, obsolete) dioecious[2]
(2): The 1833 US Nautical Almanac using the symbol ⟨♋︎⟩ for stars in the constellation of Cancer, here δ ♋︎ (Delta Cancri).
| Text style | Emoji style |
|---|---|
| ♋︎ | ♋️ |
| Note: Character's appearance may be different on each system. Text style is forced with ︎ and emoji style with ️ | |
Gallery
- A glyph from 1493
- A glyph from the 1500s
- A glyph from ca. 1750
- A glyph from 1840
- A glyph from 1908
- Font variant
- The symbol on a background colored as the Moon, the ruling planet
- An iconic variant
- Coin with symbol and icon
See also
| Zodiac signs (translingual) (layout · text) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ariēs | taurus | geminī | cancer | ||||||||
| leō | virgō | lībra | scorpiō | ||||||||
| sagittārius | capricornus | aquārius | piscēs | ||||||||
References
- Rudolf Koch (1955 [1930]) The Book of Signs. Dover, p. 55
- Simpson, Niki (2010 February) “Botanical symbols: a new symbol set for new images”, in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, volume 162, number 2, , archived from the original on 2021-12-19, pages 117–129
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