♉
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| ♉︎ | ♉️ | |||||||
| Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩. | ||||||||
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Translingual
Alternative forms
- 🜘
- The horns may curve up and then out again, like the horns of longhorn cattle, or only upward, forming a half circle like a digit 8 with the top removed, or curl in toward each other at the top.
Etymology
A bull's face and horns.
Symbol
♉︎
- (astrology) The symbol for the sign Taurus.
- (astronomy, rare) The symbol for the constellation Taurus.
- (rare) April[1]
- (alchemy, archaic) congelation
- (alchemy, obsolete) The symbol for bismuth in Torbern Bergman's work (1775).[2]
Gallery
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A glyph from 1493
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A glyph from the 1500s
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A glyph from ca. 1750
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A glyph from 1840
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A glyph from 1908
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Font variant
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The symbol on a background colored as Venus, its ruling planet
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Coin with symbol and icon
See also
| Zodiac signs and symbols (layout · text) | |||||||||||
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Aries |
Taurus |
Gemini |
Cancer | ||||||||
Leo |
Virgo |
Libra |
Scorpio | ||||||||
Sagittarius |
Capricorn |
Aquarius |
Pisces | ||||||||