U+264A GEMINI: ♊ – Unicode

U+264A was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+2600 to U+26FF Miscellaneous Symbols in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+264A behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The CLDR project labels this character “Gemini” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: Gemini, twins, 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 Variation Selector-15: ♊︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Gemini (♊︎) ( JEM-in-eye, Latin for "twins") is the third astrological sign in the zodiac. Under the tropical zodiac, the sun transits this sign between about May 21 to June 21. Gemini is represented by the twins, Castor and Pollux, known as the Dioscuri in Greek mythology. It is a positive, mutable sign.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	9802
UTF-8	E2 99 8A
UTF-16	26 4A
UTF-32	00 00 26 4A
URL-Quoted	%E2%99%8A
HTML-Escape	♊
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	â
L^AT_EX	\gemini

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	GEMINI
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
General Category	Other Symbol
Script	Common
Bidirectional Category	Other Neutral
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Gemini
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Gemini
Lowercase Mapping	Gemini
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Gemini
Uppercase Mapping	Gemini
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Gemini
Titlecase Mapping	Gemini
Case Folding	Gemini
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✘
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✔
Emoji	✔
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✔
FC NFKC Closure	Gemini
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✘
ID Start	✘
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Gemini
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✔
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Other
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Other
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✘
XID Start	✘
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Gemini
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Wide
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Alphabetic
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Gemini
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	U