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Text style

Emoji style

♏︎

♏️

Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.

♏	U+264F, ♏ SCORPIUS

Miscellaneous Symbols

On this 16th-century clock-face, Scorpio (from 4 o'clock to 5 o'clock on the outer dial, below Mercury/Wednesday) indicates November.

Translingual

Alternative forms

The symbol may have three humps before the tail, not just two; the tail may or may not have barbs (end in an arrowhead).

Etymology

A stylized representation of a scorpion with a stinging tail.

Symbol

♏︎

(astrology) The symbol for the sign Scorpio.
(astronomy, rare) The symbol for the constellation Scorpius.
(rare) October^[1]
(alchemy, archaic) separation

(2): The 1833 US Nautical Almanac using the symbol ⟨♏︎⟩ for stars in the constellation of Scorpius, here δ ♏︎ (Delta Scorpii) in line 4.

(2): The 1833 US Nautical Almanac using the symbol ⟨♏︎⟩ for stars in the constellation of Scorpius, here δ ♏︎ (Delta Scorpii) in line 4.

Gallery

A glyph from 1493
A glyph from the 1500s
A glyph from ca. 1750
A glyph from 1840
A glyph from 1908
Font variant
The symbol on a background colored as Mars, the ruling planet
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

^ Rudolf Koch (1955 ) The Book of Signs. Dover, p. 56

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