U+1F773 "🝳" Alchemical Symbol for Half Ounce Unicode Character

U+1F773 "🝳" Alchemical Symbol for Half Ounce is a specialized glyph belonging to the Alchemical Symbols block, used historically in European alchemy and early chemistry to denote a half ounce in weight or measure, particularly within recipes and procedural notations. Its design typically features a stylized combination of a cross and a semicircle or half moon, reflecting the visual shorthand alchemists employed for precision and secrecy. As part of Unicode, this symbol preserves the rich, intricate language of pre modern scientific texts, offering a bridge between contemporary digital encoding and the esoteric practices of the medieval and Renaissance periods.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F773
Version Added	6.0
Name	Alchemical Symbol for Half Ounce
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 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDF73
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F773
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udf73

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