Chemistry:Alchemical Symbols (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Alchemical Symbols
RangeU+1F700..U+1F77F
(128 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Assigned116 code points
Unused12 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.0116 (+116)
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]

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

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 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), 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), 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), WG2 Consent Docket 
L2/09-335R Moore, Lisa (2009-11-10), UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes 
L2/10-119 N3813 Parker, Robert (2010-03-21), Comments on spelling SULPHUR vs SULFUR in FPDAM 8 
L2/10-128 N3818 Hooper, Wallace E. (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), 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), 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), Recommendations to UTC #170 January 2022 on Script Proposals 
L2/22-016 Constable, Peter (2022-04-21), 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), Recommendations to UTC #170 January 2022 on Script Proposals 
L2/22-016 Constable, Peter (2022-04-21), UTC #170 Minutes 
  1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

External links

  • Wiktionary:Appendix:Unicode/Alchemical Symbols

References

  1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 
  2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 
  3. ↑ Unicode L2/09-037R2




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