U+1F72D "🜭" Alchemical Symbol for Salt of Antimony Unicode Character

U+1F72D "🜭" Alchemical Symbol for Salt of Antimony is a specific glyph within the Alchemical Symbols block, representing one of the many esoteric signs used in medieval and Renaissance chemistry to denote a purified or essential substance derived from the ore stibnite. In alchemical tradition, this symbol pointed to the refined salt of antimony, a compound believed to possess potent medicinal and transformative properties, often associated with the concept of purification in the quest to create the philosopher's stone. The character itself, with its distinctive cross and circle shapes, visually encodes the complex system of spiritual and material correspondences that alchemists used to classify and communicate about their experiments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F72D
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Salt 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 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF2D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F72D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf2d

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