U+1F72F "🜯" Alchemical Symbol for Vinegar of Antimony Unicode Character

U+1F72F "🜯" Alchemical Symbol for Vinegar of Antimony is a rarely used glyph found in the Alchemical Symbols block, representing a specific substance in historical chemistry and occult traditions. This symbol denotes vinegar of antimony, a corrosive liquid once prepared by distilling antimony with vinegar or other acids, used in alchemical processes to dissolve metals or as a purported medicinal elixir. Its design typically features a stylized emblem combining elements like a cross or circle, reflecting the complex symbolic language alchemists employed to denote ingredients and operations. Though obsolete in modern science, the symbol endures in digital character sets for use in scholarly texts, historical reenactments, or typographic curiosity, preserving a fragment of premodern chemical practice.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F72F
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Vinegar 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 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF2F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F72F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf2f

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