U+1F711 "🜑" Alchemical Symbol for Mercury Sublimate-2 Unicode Character

U+1F711 "🜑" Alchemical Symbol for Mercury Sublimate-2 is a specialized glyph found within the Alchemical Symbols block, representing a specific variant of the substance known as mercury sublimate, a crystalline compound historically produced by heating mercury with sulfuric acid. This particular symbol is distinguished from other mercury sublimate notations by its unique stylized combination of circles and lines, reflecting the intricate visual codes used by medieval and Renaissance alchemists to document chemical processes, substances, and transformations. As part of the Unicode standard, it serves to preserve and digitize these historical esoteric scripts for use in modern text-based communication, scholarly research, and typographic representation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F711
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Mercury Sublimate-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 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF11
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F711
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf11

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