U+1F770 "🝰" Alchemical Symbol for Day-Night Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1F770 "🝰" Alchemical Symbol for Day-Night is a rarely used glyph that originates from the visual language of European alchemy, where it represents the cyclical union of opposing forces, specifically the transition between daylight and darkness, or the philosophical concept of a complete 24 hour period as a single balanced entity. This symbol belongs to the Alchemical Symbols block of Unicode, encoded in 2010 as part of a larger effort to preserve historical notation systems from early chemistry and mysticism. In context, it serves as a meditative emblem for the merging of solar and lunar principles, often associated with the completion of a Great Work in alchemical texts where the day and night were seen not as separate but as complementary halves of a unified whole.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
🝰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
🝰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x9F 0x9D 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD83D 0xDF70 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0001F770 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud83d\udf70 |
Unicode Properties