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Text style	Emoji style
♎︎	♎️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
♎ U+264E, ♎ LIBRA ← ♍ [U+264D] Miscellaneous Symbols ♏ → [U+264F]

🝞 U+1F75E, 🝞 ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR SUBLIMATION ← 🝝 [U+1F75D] Alchemical Symbols 🝟 → [U+1F75F]

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) Libra (sign).
2. (astronomy, rare) Libra (constellation).
3. (rare) September.
4. (alchemy, archaic) A symbol for sublimation.

   Synonyms: ☊, 🝠

   Antonym: 🝟

(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. 🝟

Gallery

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

See also

Zodiac signs and symbols (layout · text)
Aries	Taurus	Gemini	Cancer
Leo	Virgo	Libra	Scorpio
Sagittarius	Capricorn	Aquarius	Pisces

Latin

Verb

🝞

1. (alchemy) abbreviation of sublīmō (“sublimate”)
   • 1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page 69:

     Cinnabaris Philoſophorum, 🝞atur ex 🜍re ♁nii cum ☿rio mixto ſepties

     Philosophers' cinnabar is sublimated from sulfur of antimony mixed with mercury seven times