U+1F74E Alchemical Symbol for Caput Mortuum
U+1F74E 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 character is also known as worthless residue of sublimation or distillation.
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+1F74E forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Caput mortuum (plural capita mortua) is a Latin term whose literal meaning is "dead head" or "worthless remains", used in alchemy.
Caput mortuum (alternately called nigredo) signified a useless substance left over from a chemical operation such as sublimation and the epitome of decline and decay; alchemists represented this residue with a stylized human skull, a literal death's head.
The symbol shown on this page was also used in 18th-century chemistry to mean residue, remainder, or residuum. Caput mortuum was also sometimes used to mean crocus metallorum, i.e. brownish-red metallic compounds such as crocus martis (ferrous sulfate), and crocus veneris (copper oxidule).
Representations
| System | Representation |
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| NΒΊ | 128846 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 9D 8E |
| UTF-16 | D8 3D DF 4E |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F7 4E |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%9D%8E |
| HTML hex reference | 🝎 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°ΕΈΒΕ½ |
| alias | worthless residue of sublimation or distillation |
Elsewhere
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