About Taurus
Taurus is the Unicode character ♉ at codepoint U+2649 in the Miscellaneous Symbols block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Taurus
To use the Taurus symbol (♉) in HTML, insert the
entity ♉ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ♉ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2649';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2649' evaluates to ♉. In Python source, write '\u2649'.
The character encodes to E2 99 89 as UTF-8 bytes and 2649 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9801.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.