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TAURUS
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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[1]
  4. (alchemy, archaic) congelation
  5. (alchemy, obsolete) The symbol for bismuth in Torbern Bergman's work (1775).[2]
(2): The 1833 US Nautical Almanac using the symbol ⟨♉︎⟩ for stars in the constellation of Taurus, here δ ♉︎ (Delta Tauri) and ζ ♉︎ (Zeta Tauri).


  • A glyph from 1493
    A glyph from 1493
  • A glyph from the 1500s
    A glyph from the 1500s
  • A glyph from ca. 1750
    A glyph from ca. 1750
  • A glyph from 1840
    A glyph from 1840
  • A glyph from 1908
    A glyph from 1908
  • Font variant
    Font variant
  • The symbol on a background colored as Venus, its ruling planet
    The symbol on a background colored as Venus, its ruling planet
  • Coin with symbol and icon
    Coin with symbol and icon

See also

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

References

  1. ^ Rudolf Koch (1955 ) The Book of Signs. Dover, p. 55
  2. ^ Identified as Taurus in i.a. Reutter de Rosemont (1931) Histoire de la pharmacie a travers les ages
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