U+1F72C "🜬" Alchemical Symbol for Sublimate of Antimony Unicode Character

U+1F72C "🜬" Alchemical Symbol for Sublimate of Antimony is a historical typographic glyph that belongs to the Alchemical Symbols block, representing a substance used in early chemistry and alchemy. Sublimate of antimony, often associated with the mineral stibnite, was produced through heating antimony ore to create a volatile compound, which alchemists believed held transformative or medicinal properties. This symbol, stylized as a cross-like shape with a small circle or dot, reflects the esoteric notation systems developed in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts to encode secret knowledge about chemical processes. While rarely used in modern contexts, it remains a fascinating artifact in Unicode for those studying the history of science, linguistics, or digital representation of ancient scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F72C
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Sublimate of Antimony
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 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF2C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F72C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf2c

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