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♋️Cancer Emoji
♋️ Cancer is encoded at U+264B U+FE0F and shipped with Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode files it under Symbols → Zodiac Signs, alongside 12 related emojis.
What ♋️ Cancer means
Astrology posts, dating bios and the running joke of blaming a personality trait on a birth month. People deploy their own sign as a label and other people's signs as accusations. The set has thirteen members rather than twelve, because Unicode also encodes Ophiuchus ⛎️, a constellation the sun passes through that standard Western astrology leaves out.
Unicode tags this one cancer, crab and horoscope and files it under Symbols → Zodiac Signs.
Copy variants
Cancer carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How ♋️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- ♋U+264BCancer
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+264B U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ♋️ | |
| HTML decimal | ♋️ | |
| CSS | \264B\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{264B}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0000264B\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u264B\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{264b}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{264B}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{264B}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%99%8B%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 99 8B EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 264B FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4pmL77iP | |
| Decimal | 9803 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type ♋️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “Cancer”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “cancer”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type264band Enter. - HTML — paste
♋️.
How ♋️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- ♋️Apple
- ♋️Segoe
- ♋️Noto
- ♋️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the ♋️ Cancer emoji mean?+
♋️ is the Cancer emoji, tagged cancer, crab and horoscope. Astrology posts, dating bios and the running joke of blaming a personality trait on a birth month. People deploy their own sign as a label and other people's signs as accusations. The set has thirteen members rather than twelve, because Unicode also encodes Ophiuchus ⛎️, a constellation the sun passes through that standard Western astrology leaves out.
What is the Unicode code for ♋️?+
Cancer is U+264B U+FE0F. In HTML that is ♋️, in CSS \264B\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{264B}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ♋️ emoji added?+
Cancer got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Zodiac Signs in Symbols.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ♋️ Cancer.