U+1F75B "🝛" Alchemical Symbol for Amalgam Unicode Character

U+1F75B "🝛" Alchemical Symbol for Amalgam is a specialized glyph from the Alchemical Symbols block, representing the concept of amalgam, which historically referred to a mixture of mercury with another metal, most commonly gold or silver, to create a malleable alloy. This symbol was used in medieval and early modern alchemical texts to denote the process of combining metals through amalgamation, a technique central to both practical metallurgy and esoteric alchemical theories about transformation and unification. The character is distinct from more common alchemical signs and provides a digital representation for scholars, historians, and typographers studying or reproducing historical manuscripts related to alchemy, chemistry, and early scientific notation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F75B
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Amalgam
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 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF5B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F75B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf5b

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