U+1F72B "🜫" Alchemical Symbol for Antimony Ore Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F72B "🜫" Alchemical Symbol for Antimony Ore is a historic glyph from the alchemical tradition, specifically representing the raw mineral form of antimony, a metalloid element often used in ancient and medieval chemistry. This symbol belongs to the Alchemical Symbols block of the Unicode standard, which encodes a wide range of pictographs used by alchemists to denote substances, processes, and tools. In alchemy, antimony ore was significant for its purported medicinal and transformative properties, particularly in the creation of esoteric remedies and the pursuit of the philosopher's stone, and the symbol itself often appears in manuscripts and early chemical texts to identify this material.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F72B |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Antimony 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF2B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F72B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf2b |
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 |