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
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