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Technical information
| Symbol | ☤ | |
| Name | Caduceus | |
| Unicode number | U+2624 | |
| Category | Medical and healing symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character ☤, or U+2624, is known as the "Caduceus". It belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. The caduceus is a herald's staff, a symbolic object featuring two snakes winding around an often winged staff. It is traditionally associated with Hermes, the ancient Greek god of trade, and is used today in the United States as a symbol of commerce and negotiation, erroneously utilized as a symbol of medicine. The proper representation of medicine is the Rod of Asclepius, which only features a single snake and no wings. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ☤ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ☤ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%98%A4 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x98 0xA4 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011000:10100100 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2624 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002624 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2624" | |
| CSS Code | \2624 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2624" | |
| Perl | \x{2624} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2624" | |
| Python 3 | \u2624 | |
| Ruby | \u{2624} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ☤ in sentence and in bold like this ☤ and in italic like this ☤.
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Font size:
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28px
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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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button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>☤</span>
span {
content: "\2624";
}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