U+2653 Pisces
U+2653 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
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+2653 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 “Pisces” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: fish, 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
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Pisces (♓︎) (; Ancient Greek: Ἰχθύες Ikhthyes, Latin for "fishes") is the twelfth and final astrological sign in the zodiac. It is a negative, mutable sign. It spans 330° to 360° of celestial longitude. Under the tropical zodiac, the sun transits this area between February 19 and March 20. In classical interpretations, the symbol of the fish is derived from the ichthyocentaurs, who aided Aphrodite when she was born from the sea.
According to some tropical astrologers, the current astrological age is the Age of Pisces, while others maintain that currently it is the Age of Aquarius.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 9811 |
UTF-8 | E2 99 93 |
UTF-16 | 26 53 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 26 53 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%99%93 |
HTML hex reference | ♓ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ♓ |
LATEX | \pisces |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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