U+1F71C "🜜" Alchemical Symbol for Iron Ore Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🜜
U+1F71C "🜜" Alchemical Symbol for Iron Ore is a historical glyph from the alchemical tradition, representing the raw material from which iron was extracted, often depicted as a stylized combination of a circle and a descending line or an inverted version of the symbol for iron (♂). It belongs to the Alchemical Symbols block (U+1F700 to U+1F77F) in Unicode, a set designed to encode the visual language used by early chemists and mystics before modern atomic notation. In its original context, this symbol appeared in manuscripts and texts to denote both the substance and the philosophical concept of unrefined metallic essence, bridging the gap between practical metallurgy and esoteric symbolism.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F71C |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Iron Ore |
| 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 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF1C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F71C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf1c |
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 |