U+2BE6 "⯦" Vulcanus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⯦
U+2BE6 "⯦" Vulcanus is a symbol included in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block, used primarily in astronomy and astrology to represent the hypothetical planet Vulcan, which was once theorized to exist within the orbit of Mercury to explain anomalies in Mercury's perihelion precession before Einstein's general relativity provided a more accurate model. The symbol itself resembles a small circle bisected by a vertical line, a variation of the classical planetary cross and circle motif, and it carries historical significance as a relic of 19th-century celestial mechanics and the search for missing planets within the solar system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2BE6 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Vulcanus |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⯦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⯦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xAF 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2BE6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002BE6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2be6 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |