U+1F73D "🜽" Alchemical Symbol for Auripigment Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🜽
U+1F73D "🜽" Alchemical Symbol for Auripigment is a historical typographic glyph used in alchemical texts to represent the substance orpiment, a naturally occurring, highly toxic mineral composed of arsenic trisulfide that was prized for its vibrant golden-yellow hue and often associated with the philosopher's stone and gold-making processes in European alchemy. Part of the Alchemical Symbols block in Unicode, this character preserves the visual notation once employed by alchemists in manuscripts and early printed works to denote auripigment, which also served as a pigment in art and a source of arsenic in medieval chemical practices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F73D |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Auripigment |
| 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 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF3D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F73D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf3d |
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 |