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♉ U+2649, ♉ TAURUS ← ♈ [U+2648] Miscellaneous Symbols ♊ → [U+264A]

On this 16th-century clock-face, Taurus (from 10 o'clock to 11 o'clock on the outer dial) indicates May.

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 🜘
• The horns may curve up and then out again, like the horns of longhorn cattle, or only upward, forming a half circle like a digit 8 with the top removed, or curl in toward each other at the top.

Etymology

A bull's face and horns.

Symbol

♉︎

1. (astrology) The symbol for the sign Taurus.
2. (astronomy, rare) The symbol for the constellation Taurus.
3. (rare) April
4. (alchemy, archaic) congelation
5. (alchemy, obsolete) The symbol for bismuth in Torbern Bergman's work (1775).

(2): The 1833 US Nautical Almanac using the symbol ⟨♉︎⟩ for stars in the constellation of Taurus, here δ ♉︎ (Delta Tauri) and ζ ♉︎ (Zeta Tauri).

Presentations of ♉︎

Text style	Emoji style
♉︎	♉️
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 Venus, its 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