U+1F749 "🝉" Alchemical Symbol for Gum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F749 "🝉" Alchemical Symbol for Gum is a glyph from the Alchemical Symbols block, added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 as part of version 6.0. It represents a stylized, abstract shape historically used in alchemical texts to denote gum, a resinous substance often derived from tree sap and employed in various medicinal, chemical, and ritual preparations. The symbol is rarely used in modern contexts but holds significance for scholars of historical manuscripts, cryptography, and typography, serving as a digital preservation of an obscure element of early scientific notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F749 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Gum |
| 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 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF49 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F749 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf49 |
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 |