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U+2649, ♉
TAURUS

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On this 16th-century clock-face, Taurus (from 10 o'clock to 11 o'clock on the outer dial) indicates May.

Translingual

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Alternative forms

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  • 🜘
  • The horns may curve up and then out again, like the horns of longhorn cattle, or only upward, forming a half circle like a digit 8 with the top removed, or curl in toward each other at the top.

Etymology

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A bull's face and horns.

Symbol

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♉︎

  1. (astrology) The symbol for the sign Taurus.
  2. (astronomy, rare) The symbol for the constellation Taurus.
  3. (rare) April[1]
  4. (alchemy, archaic) congelation
  5. (alchemy, obsolete) The symbol for bismuth in Torbern Bergman's work (1775).[2]
 
(2): The 1833 US Nautical Almanac using the symbol ⟨♉︎⟩ for stars in the constellation of Taurus, here δ ♉︎ (Delta Tauri) and ζ ♉︎ (Zeta Tauri).


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See also

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Zodiac signs (translingual) (layout · text)
       
Ariēs Taurus Geminī Cancer
       
Leō Virgō Lībra Scorpiō
       
Sagittārius Capricornus Aquārius Piscēs

References

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  1. ^ Rudolf Koch (1955 [1930]) The Book of Signs. Dover, p. 55
  2. ^ Identified as Taurus in i.a. Reutter de Rosemont (1931) Histoire de la pharmacie a travers les ages