🜊

🜊 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

🜊

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

• 🜋 distilled vinegar
• 🜵 regulus