U+1F704 "🜄" Alchemical Symbol for Water Unicode Character

U+1F704 "🜄" Alchemical Symbol for Water is a pictographic representation of one of the four classical elements in alchemy, depicted as an inverted or downward pointing triangle. This symbol was historically used by alchemists to denote water in their manuscripts, experiments, and philosophical writings, often alongside other elemental symbols for fire, earth, and air. In modern digital contexts, it is categorized under the "Alchemical Symbols" block in Unicode, allowing for its use in academic, historical, or decorative text to evoke the traditional iconography of medieval and Renaissance chemistry.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F704
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Water
Block	Alchemical Symbols
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	🜄
HTML Hex Encoding	🜄
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9F 0x9C 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF04
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F704
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf04

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
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other