Cancer

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Shortcode
:cancer:
Unicode
U+264B
HTML
♋
CSS
\264B
JavaScript
"\u{264B}"
URL
%E2%99%8B

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What ♋ means

Two curled shapes, the glyph for Cancer, the crab. It is a water sign ruled by the Moon in astrology.

Cancer people use ♋ in bios and birthday posts. Horoscope memes call them emotional, caring and homebodies.

It refers to the zodiac sign, not the disease; 🎗️ is used for cancer awareness.

Facts

Cancer ♋ is an emoji in the symbols category, under zodiac. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :cancer:. People also look for it with words like “crab”, “horoscope”, or “zodiac”.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. Cancer, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. Cancer, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. Cancer, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. Cancer, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. Cancer, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

symbols · Unicode 6.0