U+1F754 "🝔" Alchemical Symbol for Soap Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🝔
U+1F754 "🝔" Alchemical Symbol for Soap is a lesser known entry within the Alchemical Symbols block, representing a substance historically prepared by combining fats or oils with lye through saponification. This symbol was used by early chemists and alchemists to denote soap in their manuscripts and experiment notes, reflecting a period when purification and transformation processes were often shrouded in mystical or hidden language. Its inclusion in Unicode preserves a piece of scientific history, linking modern digital text to the traditions of medieval and Renaissance alchemy where everyday compounds were encoded with specific glyphs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F754 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Soap |
| 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 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF54 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F754 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf54 |
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 |