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Text style	Emoji style
♎︎	♎️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
♎ U+264E, ♎ LIBRA ← ♍ [U+264D] Miscellaneous Symbols ♏ → [U+264F]

🝞 U+1F75E, 🝞 ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR SUBLIMATION ← 🝝 [U+1F75D] Alchemical Symbols 🝟 → [U+1F75F]

On this 16th-century clock-face, Libra (from 3 o'clock to 4 o'clock on the outer dial, just below the moon hand) indicates October.

Translingual

Alternative forms

(astrology) The curve in the top stroke may vary from a capital Ω-shape to a small bump.

(alchemy) The bottom horizontal line is sometimes omitted, both in isolation and in compounds, making it identical to some forms of ⟨🝇⟩. The lines may or may not end in serifs. Cursive form ⟨🝠⟩.

Etymology

A balance (pair of scales).

Symbol

♎︎

1. (astrology) The symbol for the sign Libra
2. (astronomy, rare) The symbol for the constellation Libra
3. (alchemy, archaic) Symbol for sublimation

   Synonyms: ☊, 🝠

   Antonym: 🝟

4. (rare) September

(2): The 1833 US Nautical Almanac using the symbol ⟨♎︎⟩ for stars in the constellation of Libra, here 2 ξ ♎︎ (Xi2 Librae), γ ♎︎ (Gamma Librae), η ♎︎ (Eta Librae), θ ♎︎ (Theta Librae).

Derived terms

1. 🜐
2. 🝟

Gallery

• 
  A glyph from 1493
• 
  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, the ruling planet
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  Coin with symbol and icon

See also

Zodiac signs (translingual) (layout · text)
ariēs	taurus	geminī	cancer
leō	virgō	lībra	scorpiō
sagittārius	capricornus	aquārius	piscēs

Latin

Verb

🝞ō (present infinitive 🝞āre, perfect active 🝞āvī, supine 🝞ātum); first conjugation

1. (alchemy) Abbreviation of sublimo (“sublimate”).
   • 1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page 69:

     Cinnabaris Philoſophorum, 🝞atur ex 🜍re ♁nii cum ☿rio mixto ſepties

     Philosophers' cinnabar is sublimated from sulfur of antimony mixed with mercury seven times

Conjugation

Conjugation of 🝞ō (first conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	🝞ō	🝞ās	🝞at	🝞āmus	🝞ātis	🝞ant
	imperfect	🝞ābam	🝞ābās	🝞ābat	🝞ābāmus	🝞ābātis	🝞ābant
	future	🝞ābō	🝞ābis	🝞ābit	🝞ābimus	🝞ābitis	🝞ābunt
	perfect	🝞āvī	🝞āvistī	🝞āvit	🝞āvimus	🝞āvistis	🝞āvērunt, 🝞āvēre
	pluperfect	🝞āveram	🝞āverās	🝞āverat	🝞āverāmus	🝞āverātis	🝞āverant
	future perfect	🝞āverō	🝞āveris	🝞āverit	🝞āverimus	🝞āveritis	🝞āverint
passive	present	🝞or	🝞āris, 🝞āre	🝞ātur	🝞āmur	🝞āminī	🝞antur
	imperfect	🝞ābar	🝞ābāris, 🝞ābāre	🝞ābātur	🝞ābāmur	🝞ābāminī	🝞ābantur
	future	🝞ābor	🝞āberis, 🝞ābere	🝞ābitur	🝞ābimur	🝞ābiminī	🝞ābuntur
	perfect	🝞ātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	🝞ātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	🝞ātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	🝞em	🝞ēs	🝞et	🝞ēmus	🝞ētis	🝞ent
	imperfect	🝞ārem	🝞ārēs	🝞āret	🝞ārēmus	🝞ārētis	🝞ārent
	perfect	🝞āverim	🝞āverīs	🝞āverit	🝞āverīmus	🝞āverītis	🝞āverint
	pluperfect	🝞āvissem	🝞āvissēs	🝞āvisset	🝞āvissēmus	🝞āvissētis	🝞āvissent
passive	present	🝞er	🝞ēris, 🝞ēre	🝞ētur	🝞ēmur	🝞ēminī	🝞entur
	imperfect	🝞ārer	🝞ārēris, 🝞ārēre	🝞ārētur	🝞ārēmur	🝞ārēminī	🝞ārentur
	perfect	🝞ātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	🝞ātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	🝞ā	—	—	🝞āte	—
	future	—	🝞ātō	🝞ātō	—	🝞ātōte	🝞antō
passive	present	—	🝞āre	—	—	🝞āminī	—
	future	—	🝞ātor	🝞ātor	—	—	🝞antor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		🝞āre	🝞āvisse	🝞ātūrum esse	🝞ārī	🝞ātum esse	🝞ātum īrī
participles		🝞āns	—	🝞ātūrus	—	🝞ātus	🝞andus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		🝞andī	🝞andō	🝞andum	🝞andō	🝞ātum	🝞ātū