U+260C Conjunction
U+260C was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as alchemical symbol for day.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+260C forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In astronomy, a conjunction occurs when two astronomical objects or spacecraft appear to be close to each other in the sky. This means they have either the same right ascension or the same ecliptic longitude, usually as observed from Earth.
When two objects always appear close to the ecliptic—such as two planets, the Moon and a planet, or the Sun and a planet—this fact implies an apparent close approach between the objects as seen in the sky. A related word, appulse, is the minimum apparent separation in the sky of two astronomical objects.
Conjunctions involve either two objects in the Solar System or one object in the Solar System and a more distant object, such as a star. A conjunction is an apparent phenomenon caused by the observer's perspective: the two objects involved are not actually close to one another in space. Conjunctions between two bright objects close to the ecliptic, such as two bright planets, can be seen with the naked eye.
The astronomical symbol for conjunction is (Unicode U+260C ☌). The conjunction symbol is not used in modern astronomy. It continues to be used in astrology.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 9740 |
UTF-8 | E2 98 8C |
UTF-16 | 26 0C |
UTF-32 | 00 00 26 0C |
URL-Quoted | %E2%98%8C |
HTML hex reference | ☌ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ☌ |
alias | alchemical symbol for day |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 37 A3 36 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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