U+2604 "☄" Comet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
☄
U+2604 "☄" Comet is a graphical symbol that represents a celestial object composed of ice, dust, and rock, which orbits the sun and develops a visible tail as it approaches the inner solar system. This pictographic glyph is often used in digital communication to evoke themes of astronomy, space, or stellar phenomena, and it can also carry metaphorical connotations of sudden change or a dazzling, fleeting event.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2604 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Comet |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ☄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ☄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x98 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2604 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002604 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2604 |