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Translingual[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
The strokes coming from the circles may be straight and horizontal, or slightly curved, to forming arcs of a larger circle themselves.
Etymology[edit]
A pair of crab claws.
Symbol[edit]
♋︎
- (astrology) The symbol for the sign Cancer.
- (astronomy, rare) The symbol for the constellation Cancer.
- (rare) June[1]
- (alchemy, archaic) dissolve
- (botany, obsolete) dioecious[2]
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Gallery[edit]
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A glyph from 1493 -
A glyph from ca. 1750 -
A glyph from 1840 -
A glyph from 1908 -
Font variant -
The symbol on a background colored as the Moon, the ruling planet -
An iconic variant -
Coin with symbol and icon
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See also[edit]
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| leō | virgō | lībra | scorpiō | ||||||||
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| sagittārius | capricornus | aquārius | piscēs | ||||||||
References[edit]
- ^ Rudolf Koch (1955 [1930]) The Book of Signs. Dover, p. 55
- ^ Simpson, Niki (2010 February) “Botanical symbols: a new symbol set for new images”, in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society[1], volume 162, number 2, , archived from the original on 2021-12-19, pages 117–129