U+1F736 "🜶" Alchemical Symbol for Alkali Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🜶
U+1F736 "🜶" Alchemical Symbol for Alkali is a historical glyph from the medieval and early modern tradition of alchemy, where it represented alkali, a class of water-soluble, caustic salts derived from plant ashes or minerals like saltpeter. This symbol was used in alchemical texts and notations to denote specific substances or processes, often associated with purification, dissolution, or the preparation of essential compounds in the quest to transmute base metals or create elixirs. As part of the Alchemical Symbols block in Unicode, it now serves as a digital artifact for scholars, typographers, and enthusiasts interested in the visual language of pre-chemistry science and its esoteric symbolism.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F736 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Alkali |
| 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 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF36 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F736 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf36 |
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 |