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On this 16th-century clock-face, Taurus (from 10 o'clock to 11 o'clock on the outer dial) indicates May.
Translingual
Alternative forms
- 🜘
- The horns may curve up and then out again, like the horns of longhorn cattle, or only upward, forming a half circle like a digit 8 with the top removed, or curl in toward each other at the top.
Etymology
A bull's face and horns.
Symbol
♉︎
- (astrology) The symbol for the sign Taurus.
- (astronomy, rare) The symbol for the constellation Taurus.
- (rare) April[1]
- (alchemy, archaic) congelation
- (alchemy, obsolete) The symbol for bismuth in Torbern Bergman's work (1775).[2]
(2): The 1833 US Nautical Almanac using the symbol ⟨♉︎⟩ for stars in the constellation of Taurus, here δ ♉︎ (Delta Tauri) and ζ ♉︎ (Zeta Tauri).
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| Note: Character's appearance may be different on each system. Text style is forced with ︎ and emoji style with ️ | |
Gallery
A glyph from 1493
A glyph from the 1500s
A glyph from ca. 1750
A glyph from 1840
A glyph from 1908
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The symbol on a background colored as Venus, its ruling planet
Coin with symbol and icon
See also
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| ariēs | taurus | geminī | cancer | ||||||||
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| leō | virgō | lībra | scorpiō | ||||||||
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| sagittārius | capricornus | aquārius | piscēs | ||||||||
References
- Rudolf Koch (1955 [1930]) The Book of Signs. Dover, p. 55
- Identified as Taurus in i.a. Reutter de Rosemont (1931) Histoire de la pharmacie a travers les ages
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