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⛎️Ophiuchus Emoji

Tagged bearer, ophiuchus and serpent, ⛎️ Ophiuchus sits in Unicode's Zodiac Signs group inside Symbols. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+26CE U+FE0F.

What ⛎️ Ophiuchus 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 bearer, ophiuchus and serpent and files it under Symbols → Zodiac Signs.

Copy variants

Ophiuchus 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+26CEOphiuchus
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+26CE U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`⛎️`
HTML decimal	`⛎️`
CSS	`\26CE\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{26CE}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U000026CE\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\u26CE\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{26ce}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{26CE}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{26CE}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%E2%9B%8E%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 9B 8E EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`26CE FE0F`
Base64	`4puO77iP`
Decimal	`9934 65039`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

bearer
ophiuchus
serpent
snake
zodiac

Appears in these collections

How to type ⛎️

Windows — press Win + . and search “Ophiuchus”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bearer”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 26ce and 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 ⛎️ Ophiuchus emoji mean?+

⛎️ is the Ophiuchus emoji, tagged bearer, ophiuchus and serpent. 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 ⛎️?+

Ophiuchus is U+26CE U+FE0F. In HTML that is ⛎️, in CSS \26CE\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{26CE}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the ⛎️ emoji added?+

Ophiuchus 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 ⛎️ Ophiuchus.