U+1F71A "🜚" Alchemical Symbol for Gold Unicode Character

U+1F71A "🜚" Alchemical Symbol for Gold is a historic typographic glyph derived from medieval and Renaissance alchemical traditions, where it represented the precious metal gold as well as the corresponding celestial body, the Sun, which alchemists associated with perfection and enlightenment. Depicted as a simple circle with a single dot at its center, the symbol visually echoes the astrological sign for the Sun and was used in alchemical texts, diagrams, and laboratory notes to denote gold, the ultimate goal of many transmutation experiments. Today, it is encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the Alchemical Symbols block, serving as a digital preservation of this ancient visual language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F71A
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Gold
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 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF1A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F71A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf1a

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