🜊


🜊 U+1F70A, 🜊
ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR VINEGAR
← 🜉
[U+1F709]
Alchemical Symbols 🜋 →
[U+1F70B]
The symbol sometimes has serifed or fancy line-ends

Translingual

Alternative forms

  • The lines may or may not end in serifs.

Etymology

At least in sense [2], this is a cross for the root crux in 'crucible', which is sometimes written ⟨🜊ble⟩.

Symbol

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  1. (alchemy, archaic) vinegar, acid. Usually combined with other symbols, e.g. ⟨🜊🜕⟩ or ⟨🜕🜊⟩ nitrous/nitric acid, ⟨🜊🜔⟩ 'marine' (hydrochloric?) acid, ⟨🜊🜿⟩ tartaric acid, ⟨🜊🝄⟩ boric acid, ⟨🜊🜖⟩ vitriolic (sulfuric) acid, ⟨🜊f ⟩ formic acid, etc.
    Cf. Synonym: 🜋 for distilled vinegar
  2. (alchemy, archaic) crucible, crucibulum. (A cross for crux.)
    Synonyms: 🞢, 🝩
  3. (astrology, rare) vertex
    Synonym: Vx

Derived terms

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