U+1F772 "🝲" Alchemical Symbol for Half Dram Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🝲
U+1F772 "🝲" Alchemical Symbol for Half Dram is a historical typographic glyph used in early modern European alchemical texts to represent a specific unit of dry weight equal to half a dram, or 1.9375 grams. This symbol, part of the Alchemical Symbols block (U+1F700 to U+1F77F) encoded in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, originates from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts where alchemists employed a complex system of shorthand symbols to denote quantities, substances, and apparatus. The character itself, resembling a stylized cross or asterisk with a horizontal bar, reflects the practical need for precise measurement in laboratory and pharmaceutical practices before standardized scientific notation emerged.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F772 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Alchemical Symbol for Half Dram |
| 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 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDF72 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F772 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udf72 |
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 |