What ♅ means
The H honours William Herschel, the planet's discoverer. The planets known since antiquity already had their own symbols, and the new world was given one to match. In 1784 the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande proposed a globe crowned by Herschel's initial.
Herschel was the first person to find a planet with a telescope, and he wanted to call it after his patron, King George III. That name never caught on abroad; Uranus, the Greek god of the sky, won in the end.
Is ♅ the astrology symbol or the astronomy one?
Mostly astrology today; astronomy has its own sign, . In a horoscope or birth chart, ♅ marks where Uranus stands among the zodiac signs. Astrologers link Uranus with sudden change, rebellion and originality.
The other sign, , is a circle with an arrow on top, built from the Sun and Mars symbols, and is the one usually listed as Uranus's astronomical symbol. Both are planetary symbols for the same planet; in scientific writing the name itself is usually clearer.
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsUranus's place in the chart: its zodiac sign and which of the twelve chart sections it falls in.
Don't confuse it with
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4Worth knowing
- Of the planets named after gods, Uranus is the only one with a Greek name; the others carry Roman names, and Earth is named after no god at all.
Questions people ask
1Is ♅ an emoji?
No. It's a plain text symbol with no emoji version, so it looks however your font and app draw it, typically in one colour like ordinary text.
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How to type or find ♅
- Search it as
- uranus glyph · uranus astrology symbol · planet symbol H · herschel symbol · planet symbols
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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