What ⯛ means
It marks Pholus in an astrological chart. Pholus is a minor body in the centaur group, a category that also includes Chiron.
Several glyph forms are used for Pholus. Zane Stein devised one in 1994; Robert von Heeren developed another in the late 1990s. ⯛ is also recorded among the forms used for this notation.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⯛ show as a box?
It can: a font without this glyph may show a blank box or a fallback mark. A font that includes ⯛ can render the character.
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How to type or find ⯛
- Search it as
- pholus glyph · pholus astrology glyph · pholus symbol · pholus chart glyph · k-based pholus glyph
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⯛
HTML hex
⯛
CSS content
content: "\2BDB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%AF%9B
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On screen
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Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.