U+1F744 "🝄" Alchemical Symbol for Borax-3 Unicode Character

U+1F744 "🝄" Alchemical Symbol for Borax-3 is a specific glyph representing a substance that was historically used in alchemy, particularly for purification, flux in metallurgy, and as a precursor to boron compounds. This symbol is part of the Alchemical Symbols block in Unicode, which encodes many of the pictorial marks used by medieval and Renaissance alchemists to denote elements, processes, and compounds. In its design, the character features a stylized shape that distinguishes it from related alchemical symbols for other forms of borax, serving as a specialized notation within the cryptic and iconographic language of early chemistry. While rarely used in modern digital text, it remains a valuable artifact for historical manuscripts, typography enthusiasts, and those documenting the evolution of scientific notation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F744
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Borax-3
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 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF44
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F744
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf44

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