Alchemical Symbols (Unicode block)
Unicode character block
Alchemical Symbols Range U+1F700..U+1F77F (128 code points) Plane SMP Scripts Common Assigned 124 code points Unused 4 reserved code points 6.0 (2010) 116 (+116) 15.0 (2022) 124 (+8)
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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]
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.
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History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Alchemical Symbols block:
Version
Final code points[a]
Count
L2 ID
WG2 ID
Document
6.0
U+1F700..1F773
116
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
15.0
U+1F774..1F776
3
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..1F77F
5
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
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
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