U+1F74E ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR CAPUT MORTUUM
U+1F74E was added to Unicode in version 6.0 (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 worthless residue of sublimation or distillation.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+1F74E behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
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
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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-Escape | 🝎 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°ΒΒΒ |
alias | worthless residue of sublimation or distillation |
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