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Cancer
U+264B · Miscellaneous Symbols
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Meaning and uses
The zodiac sign Cancer, for birthdays from about June 21 to July 22. The glyph is usually read as the claws of a crab, drawn like a sideways 69.
Unicode details
♋ is the Unicode character named CANCER, code point U+264B, in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).
It is an emoji, listed under the name “Cancer”, so phones and most apps draw it in colour, and each platform has its own design.
| Unicode name | CANCER |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+264B |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| Added | Unicode 1.1 (1993) |
| Emoji name | Cancer |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 99 8B |
| UTF-16 | 264B |
| HTML | ♋ |
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How to type ♋
- On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
- On a phone, it is on the emoji keyboard: search for “Cancer”. On Windows, press the Windows key and the full stop (Win+.) to open the emoji panel and search there.
- On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “Cancer”.
- On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 264b, then Space or Enter.
- In HTML, use
♋. In a CSScontentproperty, use"\264B".