U+1F73D "🜽" Alchemical Symbol for Auripigment Unicode Character

U+1F73D "🜽" Alchemical Symbol for Auripigment is a historical typographic glyph used in alchemical texts to represent the substance orpiment, a naturally occurring, highly toxic mineral composed of arsenic trisulfide that was prized for its vibrant golden-yellow hue and often associated with the philosopher's stone and gold-making processes in European alchemy. Part of the Alchemical Symbols block in Unicode, this character preserves the visual notation once employed by alchemists in manuscripts and early printed works to denote auripigment, which also served as a pigment in art and a source of arsenic in medieval chemical practices.