U+1F73B "🜻" Alchemical Symbol for Realgar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F73B "🜻" Alchemical Symbol for Realgar is a stylized glyph that represents the mineral realgar, historically used in alchemy and early chemistry for its distinctive red color and arsenic sulfide composition. This symbol belongs to the Alchemical Symbols block of Unicode, which encodes pictographic characters from medieval and Renaissance alchemical manuscripts that denoted various substances, processes, and concepts. Realgar itself was associated with transformation and was often employed in experimental practices aimed at creating philosopher's stones or medicines, making this character a digital artifact of protoscientific history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F73B |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Realgar |
| 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 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF3B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F73B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf3b |
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 |