U+264E LIBRA
U+264E was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols in the 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. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+264E 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 “Libra” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: balance, justice, Libra, scales, 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:
Libra (♎︎) is the seventh astrological sign in the zodiac. It spans 180°–210° celestial longitude. The Sun transits this sign on average between September 23 (September equinox) and October 23. The symbol of the scales is based on the Scales of Justice held by Themis, the Greek personification of divine law and custom. She became the inspiration for modern depictions of Lady Justice. The ruling planet of Libra is Venus. Libra is the only zodiac sign that is represented by an object; with the other eleven signs represented by either an animal or mythological character.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9806 |
| UTF-8 | E2 99 8E |
| UTF-16 | 26 4E |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 26 4E |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%99%8E |
| HTML-Escape | ♎ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â |
| LATEX | \libra |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LIBRA | |
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| Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Libra | |
| ✘ | |
| Libra | |
| Libra | |
| ✘ | |
| Libra | |
| Libra | |
| Libra | |
| Libra | |
| Libra | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Libra | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Libra | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
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| Other | |
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| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Libra | |
| None | |
| Wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Libra | |
| U |