Technical information

Symbol
NameCaduceus
Unicode numberU+2624
CategoryMedical and healing symbols
DescriptionThe 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-160x2624
UTF-320x00002624

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2624"
CSS Code\2624
JavaScript"\u2624"
Perl\x{2624}
Python 2u"\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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HTML Forms and Input

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Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9764;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2624";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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