Alchemical Symbols (Unicode block)

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Alchemical Symbols
RangeU+1F700..U+1F77F
(128 code points)
Plane SMP
Scripts Common
Assigned124 code points
Unused4 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.0 (2010)116 (+116)
15.0 (2022)124 (+8)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1] [2]

Alchemical Symbols is a Unicode block containing symbols for chemicals and substances used in ancient and medieval alchemy texts. Many of the symbols are duplicates or redundant with previous characters. [3]

Contents

Few fonts support more than a few characters in this block as of 2021. One that does and is free for personal use is Symbola 14.0.

Block

Alchemical Symbols [1] [2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1F70x 🜀 🜁 🜂 🜃 🜄 🜅 🜆 🜇 🜈 🜉 🜊 🜋 🜌 🜍 🜎 🜏
U+1F71x 🜐 🜑 🜒 🜓 🜔 🜕 🜖 🜗 🜘 🜙 🜚 🜛 🜜 🜝 🜞 🜟
U+1F72x 🜠 🜡 🜢 🜣 🜤 🜥 🜦 🜧 🜨 🜩 🜪 🜫 🜬 🜭 🜮 🜯
U+1F73x 🜰 🜱 🜲 🜳 🜴 🜵 🜶 🜷 🜸 🜹 🜺 🜻 🜼 🜽 🜾 🜿
U+1F74x 🝀 🝁 🝂 🝃 🝄 🝅 🝆 🝇 🝈 🝉 🝊 🝋 🝌 🝍 🝎 🝏
U+1F75x 🝐 🝑 🝒 🝓 🝔 🝕 🝖 🝗 🝘 🝙 🝚 🝛 🝜 🝝 🝞 🝟
U+1F76x 🝠 🝡 🝢 🝣 🝤 🝥 🝦 🝧 🝨 🝩 🝪 🝫 🝬 🝭 🝮 🝯
U+1F77x 🝰 🝱 🝲 🝳 🝴 🝵 🝶 🝻 🝼 🝽 🝾 🝿
Notes
1. ^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2. ^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Alchemical Symbols block:

Version Final code points [lower-alpha 1] Count L2  ID WG2  IDDocument
6.0U+1F700..1F773116 L2/06-360 Lopez, Tamara (2006-10-30), Proposal on Newton Symbols
L2/07-422 Kass, James (2007-12-25), A preliminary collection of alchemical symbols
L2/08-313 Newman, William R.; Walsh, John A.; Kowalczyk, Stacy; Hooper, Wallace E. (2008-08-12), Toward a Proposal for an Alchemy Unicode Plane
L2/08-390 Newman, William R.; Walsh, John A.; Kowalczyk, Stacy; Hooper, Wallace E. (2008-10-27), Proposal for Alchemy Symbols in Unicode
L2/09-003R Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), "B.15.14", UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes
L2/09-037R2 N3584 Newman, William R.; Walsh, John A.; Kowalczyk, Stacy; Hooper, Wallace E. (2009-03-06), Proposal for Alchemical Symbols in Unicode
L2/09-234 N3603 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.10", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
L2/09-412 N3722 Suignard, Michel (2009-10-26), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4078 (PDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
L2/09-395 Whistler, Ken (2009-10-29), "Name Changes for Alchemical Symbols", WG2 Consent Docket
L2/09-335R Moore, Lisa (2009-11-10), "Consensus 121-C17", UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes
L2/10-119 N3813 Parker, Robert; et al. (2010-03-21), Comments on spelling SULPHUR vs SULFUR in FPDAM 8
L2/10-128 N3818 Hooper, Wallace E.; et al. (2010-03-29), Further Comments on the spelling SULPHUR vs SULFUR in FPDAM 8
L2/10-137 N3828 Suignard, Michel (2010-04-22), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4123 (FPDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
L2/10-152 Anderson, Deborah (2010-04-28), Brief report from WG2 Meeting #56, San Jose
L2/23-083 Anderson, Deborah; Kučera, Jan; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2023-04-21), "5 Alchemical Symbols", Recommendations to UTC #175 April 2023 on Script Proposals
L2/23-069R2 Miller, Kirk (2023-04-28), Revised designs of the alchemical symbols block [Affects U+1F741, 1F747, 1F74C, 1F74F, 1F756, 1F758, 1F763, 1F768, 1F76D, and 1F76E]
L2/23-076 Constable, Peter (2023-05-01), "Consensus 175-C17", UTC #175 Minutes, Accept the glyph changes for the Alchemical Symbols block
15.0U+1F774..1F7763 L2/22-005 Miller, Kirk (2021-12-23), Unicode request for Lot of Fortune and eclipse symbols
L2/22-023 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2022-01-22), "18. Lot of Fortune and Eclipse Symbols", Recommendations to UTC #170 January 2022 on Script Proposals
L2/22-016 Constable, Peter (2022-04-21), "Consensus 170-C11", UTC #170 Minutes
U+1F77B..1F77F5 L2/21-224 Miller, Kirk (2021-10-26), Unicode request for dwarf-planet symbols
L2/22-023 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2022-01-22), "16. Dwarf Planet Symbols", Recommendations to UTC #170 January 2022 on Script Proposals
L2/22-016 Constable, Peter (2022-04-21), "Consensus 170-C10", UTC #170 Minutes
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. Unicode L2/09-037R2