U+1F70E Alchemical Symbol for Philosophers Sulfur
U+1F70E was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block Alchemical Symbols in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+1F70E forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The philosopher's stone is a mythic alchemical substance capable of turning base metals such as mercury into gold or silver; it was also known as "the tincture" and "the powder". Alchemists additionally believed that it could be used to make an elixir of life which made possible rejuvenation and immortality.
For many centuries, it was the most sought-after goal in alchemy. The philosopher's stone was the central symbol of the mystical terminology of alchemy, symbolizing perfection at its finest, divine illumination, and heavenly bliss. Efforts to discover the philosopher's stone were known as the Magnum Opus ("Great Work").
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| NΒΊ | 128782 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 9C 8E |
| UTF-16 | D8 3D DF 0E |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F7 0E |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%9C%8E |
| HTML hex reference | 🜎 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°ΕΈΕΕ½ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 95 30 99 36 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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