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U+264E, ♎
LIBRA

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Miscellaneous Symbols
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🝞 U+1F75E, 🝞
ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR SUBLIMATION
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Alchemical Symbols 🝟
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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

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Alternative forms

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(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

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A balance (pair of scales).

Symbol

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♎︎

  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[1]
(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

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  1. 🜐
  2. 🝟
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See also

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Zodiac signs and symbols (layout · text)
 
Aries
 
Taurus
 
Gemini
 
Cancer
 
Leo
 
Virgo
 
Libra
 
Scorpio
 
Sagittarius
 
Capricorn
 
Aquarius
 
Pisces

References

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  1. ^ Rudolf Koch (1955 [1930]) The Book of Signs. Dover, p. 56

Latin

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Verb

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🝞

  1. (alchemy) Abbreviation of sublīmō (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