U+1F747 "🝇" Alchemical Symbol for Spirit Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

🝇

U+1F747 "🝇" Alchemical Symbol for Spirit is a typographic representation used primarily in historical alchemical texts to denote the concept distilled and purified essence or volatile principle, often associated with mercury or the animating life force of a substance. This specific glyph belongs to the Alchemical Symbols block of the Unicode standard, which was added in version 6.0 to preserve and enable digital use of the intricate visual language employed by alchemists from the medieval period through the early modern era. Its inclusion allows researchers, historians, and typographic enthusiasts to accurately render and search for these arcane symbols in digital documents, ensuring that the symbolic vocabulary of an early scientific tradition remains accessible and searchable in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F747
Version Added 6.0
Name Alchemical Symbol for Spirit
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 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83D 0xDF47
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F747
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83d\udf47

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