U+1F76D "🝭" Alchemical Symbol for Retort Unicode Character

U+1F76D "🝭" Alchemical Symbol for Retort is a historical typographic glyph that represents a specialized piece of laboratory glassware used in medieval and early modern chemistry and alchemy. The retort symbol depicts a vessel with a long, downward angled neck, which was employed for distillation processes, as the substance to be heated would be placed in the bulbous body while vapors condensed and collected in the neck. This character belongs to the Alchemical Symbols block of the Unicode standard, which encompasses a range of signs and diagrams that were once used by alchemists to denote various materials, processes, and equipment.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F76D
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Retort
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 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF6D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F76D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf6d

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