U+1F709 "🜉" Alchemical Symbol for Aqua Vitae-2 Unicode Character

U+1F709 "🜉" Alchemical Symbol for Aqua Vitae-2 is a specific glyph from the Alchemical Symbols block, representing a variant of the symbol for "acqua vitae," the Latin term for "water of life" historically used to describe refined spirits or essential distilled liquids in alchemy. This particular form, marked as the second variant, depicts a stylized vessel or container with a downward-pointing arrow, signifying the distillation or concentration of a vital, transformative essence. Its inclusion in Unicode preserves the rich symbolic language of medieval and Renaissance alchemical texts, where such characters were used to denote complex processes and substances in pursuit of purification and philosophical wisdom.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F709
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Aqua Vitae-2
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 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF09
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F709
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf09

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