U+1F715 "🜕" Alchemical Symbol for Nitre Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F715 "🜕" Alchemical Symbol for Nitre is a historical glyph from the medieval and Renaissance alchemical tradition, representing the compound known as nitre, or saltpeter, which is potassium nitrate. This symbol features a distinctive cross-like or cruciform shape with perpendicular lines and circles, reflecting the intricate visual language used by alchemists to denote various substances and processes. Nitre itself was a crucial ingredient in early chemistry, valued for its role in gunpowder production, as a preservative, and in medicinal applications, and its alchemical symbol is now included in Unicode’s Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for digital representation of historical texts and occult iconography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F715 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Nitre |
| 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 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF15 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F715 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf15 |
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 |