U+1F74D "🝍" Alchemical Symbol for Tutty Unicode Character

U+1F74D "🝍" Alchemical Symbol for Tutty is a historic glyph representing an alchemical substance known as tutty, which refers to a crude form of zinc oxide often obtained from the flues of furnaces used to smelt brass or zinc. In medieval and Renaissance alchemy, this symbol was used in manuscripts and early chemical texts to denote the compound, which was valued for its medicinal properties, particularly in treating eye ailments, as well as for its use in metallurgy and creating yellow pigments. The character is part of the Alchemical Symbols block in Unicode, preserving a visual link to the esoteric and proto-scientific traditions of the ancient craft.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F74D
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Tutty
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 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF4D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F74D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf4d

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