U+1F71F "🜟" Alchemical Symbol for Regulus of Iron Unicode Character

U+1F71F "🜟" Alchemical Symbol for Regulus of Iron is a specific glyph used in historical alchemical texts to represent a purified or metallic form of iron, known as "regulus," which refers to a metal obtained from smelting an ore or from a chemical reduction process. This symbol is part of the Alchemical Symbols block in Unicode, which was included to support the digital representation of medieval and early modern manuscripts where such symbols were commonly employed to denote substances, processes, and apparatus. The "regulus of iron" specifically indicates a state of iron that has been refined or isolated in a metallic core, often associated with the underlying principles of alchemy and the quest for transformation.