Alt Code Shortcuts for Zodiac and Planet Symbols

There are twelve zodiac symbols used in astrology. Though the concept is generally similar globally, there are different symbols and names used for these zodiac symbols. If you are looking for inserting commonly used zodiac symbols in your document – here is an easy way. Use the alt key on your Windows based keyboard to insert these special symbols on all Office documents like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. On MacBook, you can use option key to insert zodiac symbols.

1. Insert Zodiac Symbols on Windows

Windows 10 allows you to insert zodiac symbols in different ways.

1.1. Alt + Key Shortcuts

Press one of the alt keys on your keyboard and then enter the numbers using the number pad on your keyboard. This method will work on all Office documents.

Alt + Key	Symbol	Latin Description	English Description	Sanskrit Description
Alt + 9800	♈	Aries	Ram	Meṣa
Alt + 9801	♉	Taurus	Bull	Vṛṣabha
Alt + 9802	♊	Gemini	Twins	Mithuna
Alt + 9803	♋	Cancer	Crab	Karkaṭa
Alt + 9804	♌	Leo	Lion	Siṃha
Alt + 9805	♍	Virgo	Maiden	Kanyā
Alt + 9806	♎	Libra	Scales	Tulā
Alt + 9807	♏	Scorpio	Scorpion	Vṛścika
Alt + 9808	♐	Sagittarius	Archer	Dhanuṣha
Alt + 9809	♑	Capricorn	Goat	Makara
Alt + 9810	♒	Aquarius	Water-Bearer	Kumbha
Alt + 9811	♓	Pisces	Fish	Mīna

1.2. Alt + X Shortcuts

Enter the hexadecimal code and then press alt and x keys. This method will only work on Microsoft Word documents.

Alt + X (Hexadecimal)	Symbol	Latin Description	English Description	Sanskrit Description
2648	♈	Aries	Ram	Meṣa
2649	♉	Taurus	Bull	Vṛṣabha
264A	♊	Gemini	Twins	Mithuna
264B	♋	Cancer	Crab	Karkaṭa
264C	♌	Leo	Lion	Siṃha
264D	♍	Virgo	Maiden	Kanyā
264E	♎	Libra	Scales	Tulā
264F	♏	Scorpio	Scorpion	Vṛścika
2650	♐	Sagittarius	Archer	Dhanuṣha
2651	♑	Capricorn	Goat	Makara
2652	♒	Aquarius	Water-Bearer	Kumbha
2653	♓	Pisces	Fish	Mīna

1.3. Using Windows Emoji Keyboard

Press “Win + ;” keys to open emoji keyboard on your Windows PC or laptop. Type “zodiac” to filter all zodiac related symbols from the pop-up. Click on the symbol and insert on the document.

2. Inserting Zodiac Symbols on Mac

Similar to Windows, you can also insert zodiac symbol using option key in Pages and Keynote documents on your MacBook.

2.1. Option or Alt Code Shortcuts

Below is the list of option code shortcuts for zodiac symbols in MacBook. However, you should change the keyboard input method to Unicode Hex Input in order to use these shortcuts.

Option + Code	Symbol	Latin Description	English Description	Sanskrit Description
Option + 2648	♈	Aries	Ram	Meṣa
Option + 2649	♉	Taurus	Bull	Vṛṣabha
Option + 264A	♊	Gemini	Twins	Mithuna
Option + 264B	♋	Cancer	Crab	Karkaṭa
Option + 264C	♌	Leo	Lion	Siṃha
Option + 264D	♍	Virgo	Maiden	Kanyā
Option + 264E	♎	Libra	Scales	Tulā
Option + 264F	♏	Scorpio	Scorpion	Vṛścika
Option + 2650	♐	Sagittarius	Archer	Dhanuṣha
Option + 2651	♑	Capricorn	Goat	Makara
Option + 2652	♒	Aquarius	Water-Bearer	Kumbha
Option + 2653	♓	Pisces	Fish	Mīna

2.2. Using Character Viewer

Press “Command + Control + Space” to open Character Viewer in Mac. You can search for zodiac symbols and insert on the documents. As you can see, there are also additional animal symbols like ram in Mac.

3. Alt Code for Planet Symbols

You can also easily type planet symbols used on astrology using alt code keyboard shortcuts.

Planet Symbol	Description	Windows	Mac
☿	Mercury	Alt + 9791	Option + 263F
♀	Venus	Alt + 9792	Option + 2640
♁	Earth	Alt + 9793	Option + 2641
♂	Mars	Alt + 9794	Option + 2642
♃	Jupiter	Alt + 9795	Option + 2643
♄	Saturn	Alt + 9796	Option + 2644
♅	Uranus	Alt + 9797	Option + 2645
♆	Neptune	Alt + 9798	Option + 2646
♇	Pluto	Alt + 9799	Option + 2647

In addition to the planet symbols, you can type moon symbol ☾ using Alt + 9790 and sun symbol ☼ using Alt + 9788.

4. Customizing the Symbols

Though on the browser all zodiac symbols have a background color, you will see a simple outlined symbol on Word document. You can increase the font size, add different outline and change the background color of the symbols like any other text content.

4.1. Zodiac Symbol Images

Below are the zodiac symbol images which you can download and use it anywhere you need.

Here is an image reference for all symbols, you can download to your computer for offline purposes.

5. Indian and Chinese Zodiac Symbols

The above zodiac symbols are generally used by European countries. However, there are different zodiac symbols in countries like India and China.

5.1. Indian Zodiac Symbols

Indian zodiac symbols uses the Sanskrit descriptions mentioned in the above alt code table. However, the symbols used for each zodiac sign is different compared to Latin or European signs. Below picture indicates the European and the corresponding Indian zodiac symbols. Though you don’t have keyboard shortcuts for all Indian zodiac symbols, you can type few symbols like libra ⚖ using alt + 9878 in Windows and option + 2696 in Mac.

5.2. Chinese Zodiac Symbols

China uses twelve animal symbols for zodiac signs assigned in twelve years interval. For example, your Chinese zodiac sign is monkey if you were born in 1980. All these symbols are part of Unicode animal and nature emoji category.

Alt + Code	Symbol	Description	Base Year
Alt + 128000	🐀	Rat	1912
Alt + 128002	🐂	Ox	1913
Alt + 128005	🐅	Tiger	1914
Alt + 128007	🐇	Rabbit	1915
Alt + 128009	🐉	Dragon	1916
Alt + 128013	🐍	Snake	1917
Alt + 128014	🐎	Horse	1918
Alt + 128015	🐏	Ram	1919
Alt + 128018	🐒	Monkey	1920
Alt + 128019	🐓	Rooster	1921
Alt + 128021	🐕	Dog	1922
Alt + 128022	🐖	Pig	1923