U+1F70F "🜏" Alchemical Symbol for Black Sulfur Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1F70F "🜏" Alchemical Symbol for Black Sulfur is a historical sign from medieval and Renaissance alchemy, representing a key substance in the quest to create the Philosopher’s Stone. In alchemical tradition, black sulfur, often associated with the element of sulfur in its raw or volatile form, was considered a principle of combustibility and transformation, linked to the color black as the initial stage of the magnum opus known as nigredo. This symbol appears in various alchemical manuscripts and texts, where it signified the base material that required purification through fire and chemical processes to achieve spiritual and material enlightenment. Today, it is included in the Unicode standard as a heritage character, used by scholars, historians, and enthusiasts to denote alchemical concepts in digital communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F70F
Version Added 6.0
Name Alchemical Symbol for Black Sulfur
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 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83D 0xDF0F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F70F
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83d\udf0f

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