U+1F76F "🝯" Alchemical Symbol for Night Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🝯
U+1F76F "🝯" Alchemical Symbol for Night is a graphic representation used in historical alchemical texts to denote the concept of night, often associated with darkness, obscurity, or the Nigredo phase of the Great Work, a stage of putrefaction and blackening essential for spiritual transformation. Derived from medieval and early modern European alchemical manuscripts, this symbol belongs to the Alchemical Symbols block within Unicode, which preserves these esoteric glyphs for digital use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F76F |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Night |
| 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 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF6F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F76F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf6f |
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 |