U+1F71E "🜞" Alchemical Symbol for Crocus of Iron Unicode Character

U+1F71E "🜞" Alchemical Symbol for Crocus of Iron is a historical glyph from the alchemical tradition that represents a specific iron compound, typically referring to a reddish or saffron colored powder of iron oxide used in early chemistry and metallurgy. This symbol, part of the Alchemical Symbols block in Unicode, was employed by medieval and Renaissance alchemists to denote a substance produced through calcination processes, often associated with the purification or transformation of iron in their quest to understand matter. Its inclusion in modern digital standards preserves the visual language of protoscientific practices, bridging ancient laboratory notations with contemporary text encoding systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F71E
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Crocus of Iron
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 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF1E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F71E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf1e

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