Mercury
Mercury has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ☿
- Unicode
- U+263F
About this symbol
☿ is the astronomical sign for the planet Mercury. Alchemists paired each of the seven classical planets with a metal, and Mercury’s was quicksilver, which is why that metal still carries the planet’s name.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- MERCURY
- Also called
- Alchemical symbol for quicksilver, Intersexuality
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Unicode group
- Astrological symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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