U+1F728 "🜨" Alchemical Symbol for Verdigris Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🜨
U+1F728 "🜨" Alchemical Symbol for Verdigris is a historic typographic glyph representing a substance produced by exposing copper to acetic acid, resulting in a greenish blue patina widely used as a pigment and medicinal ingredient in alchemy and early chemistry. Within alchemical texts, this symbol specifically denoted verdigris, which was prized for its vibrant color and its role in processes such as gilding, ink manufacturing, and the preparation of various remedies. Today, it remains a distinctive element in digital character sets for preserving and communicating ancient scientific and mystical notations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F728 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Verdigris |
| 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 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF28 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F728 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf28 |
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 |