U+1F74A "🝊" Alchemical Symbol for Wax Unicode Character

U+1F74A "🝊" Alchemical Symbol for Wax is a specialized glyph from the Alchemical Symbols block, representing the concept of wax in historical alchemical traditions. This symbol was used by alchemists to denote the substance itself or its transformative properties, often associated with processes like softening, molding, or creating seals in laboratory work. It belongs to a set of over fifty alchemical characters encoded in Unicode to preserve the written heritage of medieval and Renaissance alchemy, though it is rarely used in modern text outside of academic or enthusiast contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F74A
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Wax
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 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF4A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F74A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf4a

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