U+1F76C "🝬" Alchemical Symbol for Bath of Vapours Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🝬
U+1F76C "🝬" Alchemical Symbol for Bath of Vapours is a historical typographic glyph used in early modern alchemical texts to represent a specific laboratory apparatus and procedure. It denotes a device or technique where a substance is heated indirectly by enclosing it in a container placed over or within steam or vapor, often from boiling water, to achieve a gentle, controlled reaction or purification. This symbol is part of the Alchemical Symbols block in Unicode, which preserves the visual language of medieval and Renaissance chemistry, and its inclusion allows for the digital representation of these once-common notations in scholarly work and historical reprints.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F76C |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Bath of Vapours |
| 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 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF6C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F76C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf6c |
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 |