U+1F748 "🝈" Alchemical Symbol for Tincture Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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
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