U+1F720 "🜠" Alchemical Symbol for Copper Ore Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1F720 "🜠" Alchemical Symbol for Copper Ore is a rare and specialized glyph belonging to the Alchemical Symbols block, used historically in European alchemy to represent the raw material copper ore before it was refined into pure copper metal. This symbol, part of a larger set of alchemical notation, reflects the medieval and Renaissance practice of assigning distinct pictograms to various substances, minerals, and processes in the pursuit of transmutation and metallurgy. In Unicode, it serves as a digital preservation of these esoteric signs, allowing researchers, historians, and typography enthusiasts to accurately reproduce ancient manuscripts and texts in modern computing environments. The character is often confused with or related to other copper symbols in the same block, but its specific focus on the ore distinguishes it as a marker of raw, unprocessed material in the alchemical lexicon.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F720
Version Added 6.0
Name Alchemical Symbol for Copper 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 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83D 0xDF20
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F720
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83d\udf20

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