U+1F705 "🜅" Alchemical Symbol for Aquafortis Unicode Character

U+1F705 "🜅" Alchemical Symbol for Aquafortis is a historic typographic icon from the alchemical tradition, representing nitric acid or "strong water," a corrosive chemical used by early chemists to dissolve silver and separate gold from other metals. This symbol, encoded in the Unicode Alchemical Symbols block, reflects the elaborate notation system developed by medieval and Renaissance alchemists to denote substances, processes, and tools in their quest for transmutation and medicinal elixirs. Its inclusion in Unicode preserves a visual link to the proto scientific practices that laid foundational knowledge for modern chemistry, serving as a meaningful but rarely used character in digital text environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F705
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Aquafortis
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 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF05
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F705
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf05

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