☋
Technical information
| Symbol | ☋ | |
| Name | Descending node | |
| Unicode number | U+260B | |
| Category | Alchemical processes | |
| Description | The Unicode character ☋, or U+260B, is known as the "Descending Node". It belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character represents the point in an orbit where an object, such as a planet or a satellite, passes from the northern half to the southern half of its reference plane. In celestial mechanics, the descending node is the point where the trajectory of an object moves southward across a reference plane. The specific visual representation of this character is a circle with two lines, resembling an orb with horizontal lines on each side. The exact appearance of this symbol can depend on the system or application in which it's used and may also differ slightly based on the font and typography used. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ☋ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ☋ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%98%8B | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x98 0x8B | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011000:10001011 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x260B | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000260B |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u260B" | |
| CSS Code | \260B | |
| JavaScript | "\u260B" | |
| Perl | \x{260B} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u260B" | |
| Python 3 | \u260B | |
| Ruby | \u{260B} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ☋ in sentence and in bold like this ☋ and in italic like this ☋.
input-group
Font size:
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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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select
button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>☋</span>
span {
content: "\260B";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana