U+1F759 "🝙" Alchemical Symbol for Brick Unicode Character

U+1F759 "🝙" Alchemical Symbol for Brick is a glyph within the Alchemical Symbols block, representing a specific substance or concept from medieval European alchemy where bricks, typically made of clay and fired, were sometimes used as a drying or fluxing agent in furnace operations or as a symbolic representation of the element of earth and the foundational, structural phase of the alchemical process. This character, encoded in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010, serves as a digital preservation of a historical and occult symbol, allowing scholars and enthusiasts to reference or reproduce alchemical texts in modern electronic formats. Its design often resembles a stylized, rectangular brick, connecting contemporary typography with the esoteric visual language of early chemistry and philosophy.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F759
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Brick
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 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF59
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F759
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf59

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