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♎︎

♎️

Text style isforced 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

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Alternative forms

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(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

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A balance (pair ofscales).

Symbol

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♎︎

(astrology) The symbol for the signLibra
(astronomy, rare) The symbol for the constellationLibra
(alchemy, archaic) Symbol forsublimation
Synonyms:☊,🝠
Antonym:🝟
(rare)September^[1]

(2): The 1833 USNautical 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

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Gallery

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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 Venus, the ruling planet
Coin with symbol and icon

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

References

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^Rudolf Koch (1955 [1930])The Book of Signs. Dover, p. 56

Latin

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Verb

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🝞

(alchemy)Abbreviation ofsublīmō(“sublimate”).
- 1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff,Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page69:
  Cinnabaris Philoſophorum,🝞atur ex🜍re ♁nii cum☿rio mixto ſepties
  Philosophers' cinnabaris sublimated from sulfur of antimony mixed with mercury seven times