Ophiuchus

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Shortcode: :ophiuchus:
Unicode: U+26CE
HTML: ⛎
CSS: \26CE
JavaScript: "\u{26CE}"
URL: %E2%9B%8E

What ⛎ means

Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer, is a constellation the sun passes through between Scorpio and Sagittarius, but Western astrology does not count it among the twelve signs. People send ⛎ when they talk about the so-called 13th zodiac sign.

It comes up whenever a post claims the zodiac has changed and someone's sign is now different, usually followed by mock panic about who they really are. Astronomy fans use it to point out that the constellations and the star signs do not line up.

Facts

Ophiuchus ⛎ 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 :ophiuchus:. People also look for it with words like “bearer”, “serpent”, “snake”, or “zodiac”.