This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+2649 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The CLDR project calls this character “Taurus” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: bull, horoscope, ox, zodiac.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Glyph for U+FE0EVariation Selector-15: ♉︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Taurus (♉︎) (Ancient Greek: Ταῦρος, romanized: Taûros, Latin for "bull") is the second astrological sign in the modern zodiac. It spans from 30° to 60° of the zodiac. This sign belongs to the Earth element or triplicity, as well as a fixed modality, quality, or quadruplicity. It is a Venus-ruled sign, the Moon is in its exaltation here at exactly 3°. The Sun transits this sign from approximately April 20 until May 20 in western astrology. Taurus is one of the three earth signs, alongside Capricorn and Virgo. Taurus's opposite sign is Scorpio.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
9801
UTF-8
E2 99 89
UTF-16
26 49
UTF-32
00 00 26 49
URL-Quoted
%E2%99%89
HTML hex reference
♉
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
♉
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 37 A9 35
LATEX
\taurus
RFC 5137
\u'2649'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u2649
C and C++
\u2649
C#
\u2649
CSS
\002649
Excel
=UNICHAR(9801)
Go
\u2649
JavaScript
\u2649
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{2649}
JSON
\u2649
Java
\u2649
Lua
\u{2649}
Matlab
char(9801)
Perl
"\x{2649}"
PHP
\u{2649}
PostgreSQL
U&'\2649'
PowerShell
`u{2649}
Python
\u2649
Ruby
\u{2649}
Rust
\u{2649}
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