U+1F76B "🝫" Alchemical Symbol for Bath of Mary Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F76B "🝫" Alchemical Symbol for Bath of Mary is a historical typographic glyph representing a double boiler or water bath used in early chemistry and alchemy, named after the legendary alchemist Mary the Jewess. This symbol, part of the Alchemical Symbols block in Unicode, denotes a gentle heating apparatus that allowed substances to be heated indirectly through a surrounding water bath, a technique still used in modern laboratories as a bain-marie. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard preserves a piece of scientific and mystical history, bridging ancient laboratory practices with contemporary digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F76B |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Bath of Mary |
| 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 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF6B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F76B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf6b |
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 |