Sextile

The sextile is an aspect in Astrology, a symbol to represent that aspect, and a typographical symbol used in telephony. The symbol represents the radii of a hexagon.

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Sextile
In Unicode	U+26B9 ⚹ SEXTILE
Different from
Different from	U+002A * ASTERISK
Related
See also	U+26BA ⚺ SEMISEXTILE U+FF0A ＊ FULLWIDTH ASTERISK U+1F7B5 🞵 LIGHT SIX SPOKED ASTERISK

This article is about the symbol and its uses. For American post-punk band, see Sextile (band).

Astrology

Sextile astrological symbol, E.161 "figure 2"

In astrology, a sextile aspect is one of 60º, which is 1⁄6 of the 360° ecliptic or 1⁄2 a trine (120°). Depending on the involved planets, an orb of 4-5° is allowed.

Other uses

The more notable of the other uses of the symbol are as a star key on a telephone keypad^[1] and on a Viewdata keyboard. This usage first appeared in 1973 US patent filing (3,920,926).^[2]

See also

• French Republican calendar, in which a leap year was called sextile
• Star (grapheme) § Six points