U+1F712 "🜒" Alchemical Symbol for Mercury Sublimate-3 Unicode Character

U+1F712 "🜒" Alchemical Symbol for Mercury Sublimate-3 is a specialized glyph within the Alchemical Symbols block, representing a specific compound or stage in the historical practice of alchemy. This symbol pertains to mercury sublimate, a substance produced through the sublimation of mercury compounds, and the number three may indicate a particular variant or degree of purification in alchemical notation. Originally used in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts to denote elements, processes, or preparations in the transmutation of metals, this character now serves digital representation for scholars, historians, and enthusiasts of esoteric symbolism. Its inclusion in Unicode preserves the visual lexicon of early chemistry, bridging ancient proto scientific traditions with modern text encoding standards.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F712
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Mercury Sublimate-3
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 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF12
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F712
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf12

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