U+1F72E "🜮" Alchemical Symbol for Sublimate of Salt of Antimony Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F72E "🜮" Alchemical Symbol for Sublimate of Salt of Antimony is a typographic representation used in historical alchemical texts to denote a specific preparation of antimony, a chemical element of great interest to early chemists and alchemists. This symbol, part of the Alchemical Symbols Unicode block, depicts a stylized glyph that often incorporates a cross or cruciform shape, reflecting the process of sublimation where a solid substance is heated to become a vapor and then re-solidified as a purified crystalline material. In alchemical practice, the sublimate of salt of antimony was believed to possess medicinal and transformative properties, bridging practical laboratory work and symbolic philosophy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F72E |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Sublimate of 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 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF2E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F72E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf2e |
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 |