U+1F748 "🝈" Alchemical Symbol for Tincture Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1F748 "🝈" Alchemical Symbol for Tincture is a glyph from the alchemical symbols block, representing a substance or essence thought to be transformative or medicinal in nature. Historically, in alchemical practice, a tincture was a purported purified form of a substance, often associated with the philosopher's stone or elixirs said to transmute base metals into gold or to grant health and longevity. This symbol, with its distinctive cross-like shape topped by a circular loop, was used by alchemists in manuscripts and notations to denote a preparation that had undergone a process of extraction or spiritual refinement. Today, it is preserved in digital encoding as a reference to the rich symbolic language of early chemistry and esoteric tradition.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F748
Version Added 6.0
Name Alchemical Symbol for Tincture
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 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83D 0xDF48
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F748
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83d\udf48

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