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🜗 U+1F717, 🜗
ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR VITRIOL-2
🜖
[U+1F716]
Alchemical Symbols 🜘
[U+1F718]
T and O map of the world

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🜗

  1. (cartography, archaic) a common orientation of a T and O map, with north at top and Asia on the right
    Synonym:
  2. (alchemy, archaic, rare) a hapax legomenon in Isaac Newton's writing, thought to be a variant of 🜖, the symbol for vitriol

Usage notes[edit]

Note that the historically most common orientation of a T-and-O map, with an upright 'T' and Asia/east at top, is not supported by Unicode as of 2022.