U+1F738 "🜸" Alchemical Symbol for Marcasite Unicode Character

U+1F738 "🜸" Alchemical Symbol for Marcasite is a pictographic glyph included in the Alchemical Symbols block, representing the mineral marcasite, a polymorph of iron sulfide historically used in alchemy. This symbol, derived from medieval alchemical notation, was employed by practitioners to denote the substance in recipes, texts, and laboratory records, often associated with transformative processes involving sulfur and metals. Though marcasite itself is a common, brittle mineral, its alchemical symbol reflects the broader symbolic language used to encode chemical knowledge before modern notation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F738
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Marcasite
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 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF38
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F738
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf38

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