What ⯖ means
Astrologers never settled on one Pluto glyph.
After Pluto’s discovery in 1930, astronomers adopted ♇, but some astrologers rejected it. A 2016 Unicode proposal says alternatives developed independently because astrology had no standardizing body, and records ⯖ mainly in German-speaking regions and Denmark.
A 2016 proposal notes a crescent-like appearance and suggests the glyph refers to Pluto’s orbit crossing inside Neptune’s, but leaves that explanation tentative.
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4Questions people ask
1Why does ⯖ appear as a box?
A box usually means the selected font lacks ⯖; a font with broader symbol coverage can display it.
How to type ⯖
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 2BD6, then Alt+X to get ⯖.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “pluto form five”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 2bd6, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⯖CSS
\2BD6Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⯖
HTML hex
⯖
CSS content
content: "\2BD6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%AF%96
1
On screen
1
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.