U+1F729 "🜩" Alchemical Symbol for Tin Ore Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🜩
U+1F729 "🜩" Alchemical Symbol for Tin Ore is a specialized glyph within the Alchemical Symbols block, representing a sign historically used in early chemistry and metallurgy to denote the material tin ore. This symbol is part of a larger set of alchemical icons that predate modern chemical notation, where specific characters like 🜩 were employed by practitioners to describe substances and processes in cryptic or standardized manuscripts. While seldom used in contemporary contexts, its inclusion in Unicode allows for the accurate digital representation and study of historical alchemical texts, preserving a link to the proto scientific traditions from which modern chemistry evolved.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F729 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Tin 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 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF29 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F729 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf29 |
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 |