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U+264B · CANCER

Cancer

  • CodepointU+264B
  • NameCANCER
  • Emoji nameCancer
  • Decimal9803
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–U+26FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+264B (♋) is CANCER, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “Cancer”, in the Symbols group, subgroup zodiac. It displays as a colour emoji by default.

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type ♋

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 99 8B3 bytes
UTF-16264B1 code unit
UTF-320000264B4 bytes
HTML decimal♋
HTML hex♋
CSS\264Bin content: "…"
JavaScript\u264B
JSON\u264B
Python\u264B
Python\N{CANCER}by name
Java / C#\u264B
C / C++\u264Buniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{264B}
Go\u264B
Ruby\u264B
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9803)
URL-encoded%E2%99%8Bpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols

All in block →
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