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Translingual
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]The strokes coming from the circles may be straight and horizontal, or slightly curved, to forming arcs of a larger circle themselves.
Etymology
[edit]A pair of crab claws.
Symbol
[edit]♋︎
- (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]
Text style |
Emoji style |
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♋︎ | ♋️ |
Note: Character's appearance may be different on each system. Text style is forced with ︎ and emoji style with ️ |
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
[edit]Zodiac signs (translingual) (layout · text) | |||||||||||
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ariēs | taurus | geminī | cancer | ||||||||
leō | virgō | lībra | scorpiō | ||||||||
sagittārius | capricornus | aquārius | piscēs |
References
[edit]- ^ 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[1], volume 162, number 2, , archived from the original on 2021-12-19, pages 117–129