U+1F72A "🜪" Alchemical Symbol for Lead Ore Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1F72A "🜪" Alchemical Symbol for Lead Ore is a historic glyph from the alchemical tradition, representing the base metal lead in its raw mineral or ore form. This symbol belongs to the Alchemical Symbols block of Unicode, which preserves the visual lexicon used by medieval and Renaissance alchemists to denote substances, processes, and equipment. In alchemical cosmology, lead was considered the most primitive and opaque of metals, often associated with the planet Saturn, and its ore symbol would have been used in manuscripts and treatises to denote the starting material for the Great Work of transmutation. The inclusion of this character in modern digital standards allows scholars and enthusiasts to accurately reproduce historical alchemical texts and notations in electronic formats.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F72A
Version Added 6.0
Name Alchemical Symbol for Lead 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 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83D 0xDF2A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F72A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83d\udf2a

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