U+1F737 "🜷" Alchemical Symbol for Alkali-2 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F737 "🜷" Alchemical Symbol for Alkali-2 is a typographic representation from the Alchemical Symbols block, depicting an icon used in historical European alchemy to identify a specific alkali substance, often linked to potash or soda. This symbol, part of a larger set of alchemical signs standardized in Unicode 6.0, allowed practitioners to denote materials and processes in their recipes and manuscripts. Its visual form, typically a variant of the generic alkali sign with an added mark, reflects the alchemical tradition of using abstract symbols to represent chemical concepts before modern notation existed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F737 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Alkali-2 |
| 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 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF37 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F737 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf37 |
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 |