U+1F76E "🝮" Alchemical Symbol for Hour Unicode Character

U+1F76E "🝮" Alchemical Symbol for Hour is a typographic representation used in historical alchemical texts to denote a specific time period or the duration of an hour, often within recipes or astrological calculations. This symbol, part of the broader Alchemical Symbols block in Unicode, reflects the intricate visual language alchemists developed to encode their processes, where time measurement was crucial for operations like distillation or the maturation of substances. Its inclusion in modern computing preserves a piece of early scientific notation, allowing scholars and enthusiasts to accurately render and study these arcane manuscripts digitally.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F76E
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Hour
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 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF6E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F76E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf6e

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