U+1F74C Alchemical Symbol for Calx
U+1F74C was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as calcinare, oxide residue and calcium oxide.
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+1F74C forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Calx is a substance formed from an ore or mineral that has been heated. Calx, especially of a metal, is now understood to be an oxide. The term is also sometimes used in older texts on artists' techniques to mean calcium oxide.
According to the obsolete phlogiston theory, the calx was the true elemental substance that was left after phlogiston was driven out of it in the process of combustion.
Representations
System | Representation |
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NΒΊ | 128844 |
UTF-8 | F0 9F 9D 8C |
UTF-16 | D8 3D DF 4C |
UTF-32 | 00 01 F7 4C |
URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%9D%8C |
HTML hex reference | 🝌 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°ΕΈΒΕ |
alias | calcinare |
alias | oxide residue |
alias | calcium oxide |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 95 30 9F 38 |
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Complete Record
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