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♎︎ ♎️
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U+264E, ♎
LIBRA

Miscellaneous Symbols
🝞 U+1F75E, 🝞
ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR SUBLIMATION
🝝
Alchemical Symbols 🝟
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[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).
(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. 🝟

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. 56