U+1F73F "🜿" Alchemical Symbol for Tartar Unicode Character

U+1F73F "🜿" Alchemical Symbol for Tartar is a historical glyph used in European alchemy to represent the substance known as tartar, a crude form of potassium bitartrate that often crusted inside wine casks and was utilized as a chemical ingredient in early metallurgy and medicine. It belongs to the Alchemical Symbols block of Unicode, which encodes a wide range of icons from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts that denote specific elements, compounds, and processes. This particular symbol, depicted as a stylized triangle or salt mark, reflects the intricate visual language alchemists developed to record and communicate their secretive experimental knowledge.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F73F
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Tartar
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 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF3F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F73F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf3f

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