Ophiuchus emoji ⛎
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+26CE
What ⛎ means
Ophiuchus ⛎ goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: bearer, serpent, snake, zodiac.
Those words also drive emoji search: try bearer or serpent on your phone to find ⛎.
On the emoji keyboard, ⛎ sits with the zodiac (13 emoji) inside symbols, which has 224 emoji, for example ♈ ♉ ♊ ♋.
Will ⛎ show on my friend's phone?
⛎ has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type ⛎
To find ⛎ quickly, type ophiuchus into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type ophiuchus.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type ophiuchus in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type ophiuchus.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees ⛎ as one code point, U+26CE: 3 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 1 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+26CE | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | ⛎ | |
| HTML (decimal) | ⛎ | |
| CSS | content: "\26CE"; | |
| JavaScript | \u26CE | |
| URL | %E2%9B%8E | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9B 8E |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of ⛎ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | Ophiuchus |
| Português | signo de Ofiúco |
| Español | Ofiuco |
| Italiano | Segno zodiacale dell’Ofiuco |
| Français | serpentaire |
| Deutsch | Schlangenträger |
| Türkçe | Yılancı |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Ophiuchus |
| Polski | Wężownik |
| Русский | знак зодиака Змееносец |
| 日本語 | へびつかい座 |
| 한국어 | 뱀주인자리 |
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What does the ophiuchus emoji mean?
Unicode calls ⛎ "Ophiuchus" and links it with bearer, serpent, snake, zodiac. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the zodiac subgroup of symbols.
When was the ophiuchus emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the ophiuchus emoji?
To find ⛎ quickly, type ophiuchus into the emoji search.