U+1F716 "🜖" Alchemical Symbol for Vitriol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F716 "🜖" Alchemical Symbol for Vitriol is a graphical glyph representing a substance historically central to alchemy, often depicted as a stylized cross or star-like mark. Vitriol itself refers to a class of sulfuric acid salts, such as copper or iron sulfate, and in alchemical tradition it symbolized a powerful transformative agent, sometimes associated with the dissolvent of metals and the philosophical "prima materia." The symbol appears within the Alchemical Symbols block of Unicode, which preserves these historical marks for use in digital texts, maintaining their connection to early chemical and mystical practices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F716 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Vitriol |
| 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 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F716 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf16 |
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 |