U+1F763 "🝣" Alchemical Symbol for Purify Unicode Character

U+1F763 "🝣" Alchemical Symbol for Purify is a typographic representation of a concept central to alchemy, specifically the process of refining or cleansing a substance to achieve a higher, more essential state. This symbol, part of the Alchemical Symbols block in Unicode, was added to enable digital encoding of historical and occult texts, where it would have been used in manuscripts and early printed works to denote operations intended to remove impurities, often through heat or chemical processes. Its design typically features a stylized vessel or crucible, reflecting the practical laboratory procedures that alchemists associated with purification.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F763
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Purify
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 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF63
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F763
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf63

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