U+1F756 "🝖" Alchemical Symbol for Horse Dung Unicode Character

U+1F756 "🝖" Alchemical Symbol for Horse Dung is a rarely used glyph from the Alchemical Symbols block, representing a once significant ingredient in premodern European alchemy. In historical practice, horse dung was valued for its steady, gentle heat when fermented or burned, making it a practical source of warmth for long term chemical processes, particularly in the incubation and digestion of materials within an alchemical egg or alembic. The symbol itself typically appears as a stylized, stacked mound or triple lump shape, and its inclusion in Unicode preserves a fragment of esoteric laboratory terminology and the rich symbolic language of alchemical texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F756
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Horse Dung
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 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF56
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F756
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf56

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