What makes a symbol official?? Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigrams, warning signs, and weather, among others. Middle Ages, used on coins, in iconography, and with the sceptre as royal These symbols have been used in an astronomical context in the past, for instance, by Kepler as show here: The table on this page describes the symbol for Venus as representing "Venus's hand mirror". Symbols used in astrology overlap with those used in astronomy because of the historical overlap between the two subjects. The confusion probably arose because the author thought of quarter as a fraction of the illuminated portion. The symbol for Uranus listed on the Both should definitely be shown.

If you find a source attesting to any of this material in an astronomical (not Some of the "Unicode" entries in the tables were in decimal, others in hexadecimal. Hmm? Eh, I only really see a problemm with mixing pure-astrology articles with pure astronomy.

Changing all these cells to show both, on two lines. The symbol for Uranus listed here is a circle with a line and the H, described as being attributed to Herschel. astronomical symbol for uranus: block: Miscellaneous Symbols (Misc_Symbols) Its bidirectional class is "ON":Other Neutrals (All other characters, including OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER) Glyphs and symbols in your browser. So this seems to be the right character. Venus, from the first and last letters of twoodpoc”The symbol for the Sun is all that modern abridgment has left of a face -- I second that, when were they first used, and by whom?


The globus cruciger (Latin, “cross-bearing orb”), aka Actually, I'd still like to see the page split up. According to Maunder, the addition of crosses appears to be “an attempt to give a savour of Christianity to the symbols of the old pagan gods.”[5]The modern symbols for the seven classical planets (with an additional crossbar in the symbol for Mercury) are found in a woodcut of the seven planets, represented as the corresponding gods riding chariots, in a Latin translation of Abu Ma'shar's De Magnis Coniunctionibus printed at Venice in 1506.

Additionally the plus does not necessarily touch the circle. at Do the new planets like Ceres or "Xena" have a symbol?----- In a table, letter Э located at intersection line no. See link The curves of Jupiter and Saturn may be significantly different from one representation to the next. “The origin of the symbols of the planets” by Maunder, A. S. D. Published by The Observatory, Vol. Are they still in use?

First and last quarters look like half moons and are not the same as crescents. Or paste it to the search string. A livejournal discussion and an "online petition" do not constitute notability. orb and cross, is a Christian symbol of authority since the “others have thought that Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs is a Unicode block containing meteorological and astronomical symbols, emoji characters largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' implementations of Shift JIS, and characters originally from the Wingdings and Webdings fonts found in Microsoft Windows.

How could I object to that? Small mod this, but: the Sun and (to a lesser extent) Earth symbols are in This article has been rated as list class by three projects for several years, so does not qualify for good article status, please see I found these symbols somewhere on the internet. Zodiac is a perfectly vadid astronomical term.

These entries contained unsourced data and/or original research, and were removed. These cross-marks first appear in the late 15th or early 16th century. Saying Venus symbol came from hand mirror.

They're not articles about Unicode. I guess I've missed the vague discussion in the talk section above, but now that I've seen that page changes, I feel that I must revert.

What do I change for them to display again?
Symbols for the Sun and Moon

Unicode symbols. Astronomical symbols received a peer review by Wikipedia editors, which is now archived. Everything else on that page may contain variant symbols, symbols only ever used in astrology, and other confusion. [2] Early forms are also found in medieval Byzantine codices in which many ancient horoscopes were preserved. As for the symbols for all the asteroids recently added, I'm sure if you had original documents you'd see major variations as well. However I don't think orcus' symbol is registered? This is wrong. The astrological symbol for Uranus may not have the middle prong going up (or, sometimes the circle is up, not down). The tooltip for the Crescent Moon says "First Quarter" and that for the Decrescent Moon says "Last Quarter".

I believe the symbols for "comet", "ascending/descending node" "conjunction", "opposition", etc. But have a look at that one relevant section. Astrologists keep coming up with new stuff, and we don't want astronomers being told abouth the symbol for I mean, what would you say: The symbols for the zodiacal signs, as seen on the astrology symbols page, are used in astronomy on occassion. Removed because (1) I found no evidence of this symbol ever having being notably (or at all) used by astronomers, and (2) the astronomical symbol that was in common use looks different. Mars symbol came from shield and spear.It takes a lot research to find their origin, and there does not seem to be nice concise reason of origin. None are, to my knowledge, official.