This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as chemical term and chemistry.
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+2697 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The CLDR project calls this character “alembic” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: chemistry, tool.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: ⚗️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
An alembic (from Arabic: الإنبيق, romanized: al-inbīq, originating from Ancient Greek: ἄμβιξ, romanized: ambix, 'cup, beaker') is an alchemical still consisting of two vessels connected by a tube, used for distillation of liquids.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
9879
UTF-8
E2 9A 97
UTF-16
26 97
UTF-32
00 00 26 97
URL-Quoted
%E2%9A%97
HTML hex reference
⚗
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
âš—
alias
chemical term
alias
chemistry
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 37 B1 33
RFC 5137
\u'2697'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u2697
C and C++
\u2697
C#
\u2697
CSS
\002697
Excel
=UNICHAR(9879)
Go
\u2697
JavaScript
\u2697
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{2697}
JSON
\u2697
Java
\u2697
Lua
\u{2697}
Matlab
char(9879)
Perl
"\x{2697}"
PHP
\u{2697}
PostgreSQL
U&'\2697'
PowerShell
`u{2697}
Python
\u2697
Ruby
\u{2697}
Rust
\u{2697}
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