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Text style
Emoji style
♑︎
♑️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
This is the most variable of the signs. It may look like a V connected to an ʃ shape (see box at right), like an ɳ or ȵ shape ending in a crossing loop, or like a 7 or Ɥ with a counter-clockwise crossing loop at the bottom. In the latter case the loop may be small or quite large, as seen in the gallery below. These all originate as manuscript variants of the same basic form.
Etymology
A stylized representation of the chimeric capricorn (head and forelegs of a goat, curling tail of a fish).
(2): The 1833 US Nautical Almanac using the symbol ⟨♑︎⟩ for stars in the constellation of Capricornus, here γ ♑︎ (Gamma Capricorni) and δ ♑︎ (Delta Capricorni).
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 European variant
Font variant
The symbol on a background colored as Saturn, the ruling planet