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U+1F74E Alchemical Symbol for Caput Mortuum

U+1F74E was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block U+1F700 to U+1F77F Alchemical Symbols in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF 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
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 🝎
alias worthless residue of sublimation or distillation

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 6.0 (2010)
Unicode Name (na) ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR CAPUT MORTUUM
Unicode 1 Name (na1) β€”
Block (blk) Alchemical Symbols
General Category (gc) Other Symbol
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+1F74E Alchemical Symbol for Caput Mortuum
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+1F74E Alchemical Symbol for Caput Mortuum
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+1F74E Alchemical Symbol for Caput Mortuum
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Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+1F74E Alchemical Symbol for Caput Mortuum
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+1F74E Alchemical Symbol for Caput Mortuum
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+1F74E Alchemical Symbol for Caput Mortuum
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+1F74E Alchemical Symbol for Caput Mortuum
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+1F74E Alchemical Symbol for Caput Mortuum
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Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
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Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
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Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
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Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+1F74E Alchemical Symbol for Caput Mortuum
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) βœ”
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
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ID Continue (IDC) ✘
ID Start (IDS) ✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) β€”
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) β€”
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
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Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+1F74E Alchemical Symbol for Caput Mortuum
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+1F74E Alchemical Symbol for Caput Mortuum
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
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Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
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Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
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Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✘
XID Start (XIDS) ✘
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Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+1F74E Alchemical Symbol for Caput Mortuum
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) β€”
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+1F74E Alchemical Symbol for Caput Mortuum
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U