U+1F73E "🜾" Alchemical Symbol for Bismuth Ore Unicode Character

U+1F73E "🜾" Alchemical Symbol for Bismuth Ore is a historical graphical glyph from the extensive set of alchemical symbols encoded in Unicode's Supplemental Symbols and Planes, representing the metallic element bismuth in its raw, unrefined ore form. In the context of premodern chemistry and metallurgy, alchemists and early mineralogists used this distinctive, often curving design to denote bismuth ore as distinct from other metals or compounds, reflecting the element's unique crystalline structure and its known properties such as brittleness and a low melting point. This symbol, like many others in the alchemical block, connects modern typography and digital communication with the esoteric and proto scientific practices of medieval and Renaissance laboratories where bismuth was extracted and studied.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F73E
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Bismuth Ore
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 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF3E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F73E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf3e

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