U+1F770 "🝰" Alchemical Symbol for Day-Night Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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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

Code Point U+1F770
Version Added 6.0
Name Alchemical Symbol for Day-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 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83D 0xDF70
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F770
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83d\udf70

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