♋
| Text style | Emoji style | |||||||
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| ♋︎ | ♋️ | |||||||
| Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩. | ||||||||
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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).
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 the Moon, the ruling planet
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An iconic variant
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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 | ||||||||
References
- ^ Rudolf Koch (1955 [1930]) The Book of Signs. Dover, p. 55
- ^ Simpson, Niki (February 2010) “Botanical symbols: a new symbol set for new images”, in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society[1], volume 162, number 2, , archived from the original on 19 December 2021, pages 117–129