U+1F74B "🝋" Alchemical Symbol for Powder Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🝋
U+1F74B "🝋" Alchemical Symbol for Powder is a historic typographic glyph used in alchemical texts to represent the substance or process of powder, often indicating a finely ground ingredient essential for various transmutations and medicinal preparations. Part of the Alchemical Symbols block added in Unicode 7.0, this character derives from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts where alchemists employed a specialized visual language of signs to denote materials, operations, and apparatuses. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard allows for accurate digital representation of these esoteric documents, preserving the symbolic logic that linked the physical act of powdering to notions of refinement and transformation in early chemistry.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F74B |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Powder |
| 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 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF4B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F74B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf4b |
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 |