U+1F76E "🝮" Alchemical Symbol for Hour Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1F76E "🝮" Alchemical Symbol for Hour is a typographic representation used in historical alchemical texts to denote a specific time period or the duration of an hour, often within recipes or astrological calculations. This symbol, part of the broader Alchemical Symbols block in Unicode, reflects the intricate visual language alchemists developed to encode their processes, where time measurement was crucial for operations like distillation or the maturation of substances. Its inclusion in modern computing preserves a piece of early scientific notation, allowing scholars and enthusiasts to accurately render and study these arcane manuscripts digitally.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1F76E
Name
Alchemical Symbol for Hour
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
🝮
HTML Hex Encoding
🝮
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x9F 0x9D 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD83D 0xDF6E
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001F76E
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud83d\udf6e
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common