U+1F742 "🝂" Alchemical Symbol for Borax Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F742 "🝂" Alchemical Symbol for Borax is a historical typographic glyph used in European alchemical texts to represent the compound borax, a mineral salt historically employed as a flux in metallurgy and as a cleansing agent. Part of the Alchemical Symbols block, this character was encoded to support the digitization of medieval and early modern manuscripts and printed works, where such symbols were standard shorthand for substances and processes. Its inclusion in Unicode preserves the visual vocabulary of alchemy, offering scholars and enthusiasts a precise way to render and communicate these archaic notations in modern digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F742 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Borax |
| 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 0x9D 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F742 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf42 |
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 |