U+1F769 "🝩" Alchemical Symbol for Crucible-5 Unicode Character

U+1F769 "🝩" Alchemical Symbol for Crucible-5 is a pictographic glyph from the Alchemical Symbols block, representing one of several variant symbols for a crucible, a vessel historically used for melting or testing metals. This specific symbol, designated as version 5 of the crucible in alchemical notation, would have been employed by early chemists and alchemists in manuscripts to denote a particular type or stage of heating or purification process involving the crucible. As part of the Unicode standard, it preserves a visual link to the esoteric and proto-scientific traditions of Western alchemy, allowing modern digital text to include such historical iconography for scholarly or decorative purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F769
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Crucible-5
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 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF69
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F769
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf69

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