♓
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| ♓︎ | ♓️ | |||||||
| Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩. | ||||||||
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Translingual
Alternative forms
The joining stroke may not extend past the arcs, or the arcs may touch in the middle without any joining stroke.
Etymology
A pair of fish; the stroke joining them is relatively recent.
Symbol
♓︎
- (astrology) The symbol for the sign Pisces.
- (astronomy, rare) The symbol for the constellation Pisces.
- (rare) February[1]
- (alchemy, archaic) projection
- (botany, obsolete) heterophytous[2]
(2): The 1833 US Nautical Almanac using the symbol ⟨♓︎⟩ for stars in the constellation of Pisces, here r ♓︎ (r Piscium) and s ♓︎ (s Piscium).
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 Jupiter, the ruling planet
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An iconic variant
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An abstract iconic variant
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Coin with symbol and icon
See also
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Taurus |
Gemini |
Cancer | ||||||||
Leo |
Virgo |
Libra |
Scorpio | ||||||||
Sagittarius |
Capricorn |
Aquarius |
Pisces | ||||||||
References
- ^ Rudolf Koch (1955 [1930]) The Book of Signs. Dover, p. 54
- ^ 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