Letterlike Symbols | |
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Range | U+2100..U+214F (80 code points) |
Plane | BMP |
Scripts | Greek (1 char.) Latin (4 char.) Common (75 char.) |
Symbol sets | Mathematics abbreviations |
Assigned | 80 code points |
Unused | 0 reserved code points |
Unicode version history | |
1.0.0 (1991) | 57 (+57) |
3.0 (1999) | 59 (+2) |
3.2 (2002) | 74 (+15) |
4.0 (2003) | 75 (+1) |
4.1 (2005) | 77 (+2) |
5.0 (2006) | 79 (+2) |
5.1 (2008) | 80 (+1) |
Unicode documentation | |
Code chart ∣ Web page | |
Note: [1] [2] |
Letterlike Symbols is a Unicode block containing 80 characters which are constructed mainly from the glyphs of one or more letters. In addition to this block, Unicode includes full styled mathematical alphabets, although Unicode does not explicitly categorize these characters as being "letterlike."
Char | Image | Name | Unicode U+ |
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℀ | Account of | 2100 | |
℁ | Addressed to the subject (i.e., care of) | 2101 | |
ℂ | Double-struck capital C | 2102 | |
℃ | Degree Celsius | 2103 | |
℄ | Center line symbol | 2104 | |
℅ | Care of | 2105 | |
℆ | Cada una [4] | 2106 | |
ℇ | Euler constant [5] | 2107 | |
℈ | Scruple | 2108 | |
℉ | Degree Fahrenheit | 2109 | |
ℊ | Script small G | 210A | |
ℋ | Script capital H | 210B | |
ℌ | Black-letter capital H | 210C | |
ℍ | Double-struck capital H | 210D | |
ℎ | Planck constant | 210E | |
ℏ | Reduced Planck constant (Planck constant over 2π) | 210F | |
ℐ | Script capital I | 2110 | |
ℑ | Black-letter capital I | 2111 | |
ℒ | Script capital L | 2112 | |
ℓ | Script small L (LaTeX: \ell ) | 2113 | |
℔ | L B bar symbol | 2114 | |
ℕ | Double-struck capital N | 2115 | |
№ | Numero sign | 2116 | |
℗ | Sound recording copyright symbol | 2117 | |
℘ | Script capital P alias: Weierstrass elliptic function | 2118 | |
ℙ | Double-struck capital P | 2119 | |
ℚ | Double-struck capital Q | 211A | |
ℛ | Script capital R | 211B | |
ℜ | Black-letter capital R | 211C | |
ℝ | Double-struck capital R | 211D | |
℞ | Prescription take | 211E | |
℟ | Response | 211F | |
℠ | Service mark | 2120 | |
℡ | Telephone sign | 2121 | |
™ | Trademark sign | 2122 | |
℣ | Versicle | 2123 | |
ℤ | Double-struck capital Z | 2124 | |
℥ | Ounce sign | 2125 | |
Ω | Ohm sign | 2126 | |
℧ | Inverted ohm sign | 2127 | |
ℨ | Black-letter capital Z | 2128 | |
℩ | Turned Greek small letter iota | 2129 | |
K | Kelvin sign | 212A | |
Å | Ångström sign | 212B | |
ℬ | Script capital B | 212C | |
ℭ | Black-letter capital C | 212D | |
℮ | Estimated symbol | 212E | |
ℯ | Script small E | 212F | |
ℰ | Script capital E | 2130 | |
ℱ | Script capital F | 2131 | |
Ⅎ | Turned capital F | 2132 | |
ℳ | Script capital M | 2133 | |
ℴ | Script small O | 2134 | |
ℵ | Alef symbol | 2135 | |
ℶ | Bet symbol | 2136 | |
ℷ | Gimel symbol | 2137 | |
ℸ | Dalet symbol | 2138 | |
ℹ | Information source | 2139 | |
℺ | Rotated capital Q | 213A | |
℻ | Fax sign | 213B | |
ℼ | Double-struck small pi | 213C | |
ℽ | Double-struck small gamma | 213D | |
ℾ | Double-struck capital gamma | 213E | |
ℿ | Double-struck capital pi | 213F | |
⅀ | Double-struck n-ary summation | 2140 | |
⅁ | Turned sans-serif capital G | 2141 | |
⅂ | Turned sans-serif capital L | 2142 | |
⅃ | Reversed sans-serif capital L | 2143 | |
⅄ | Turned sans-serif capital Y | 2144 | |
ⅅ | Double-struck italic capital D | 2145 | |
ⅆ | Double-struck italic small D | 2146 | |
ⅇ | Double-struck italic small E | 2147 | |
ⅈ | Double-struck italic small I | 2148 | |
ⅉ | Double-struck italic small J | 2149 | |
⅊ | Property line | 214A | |
⅋ | Turned ampersand | 214B | |
⅌ | Per sign | 214C | |
⅍ | Aktieselskab | 214D | |
ⅎ | Turned small F | 214E | |
⅏ | Symbol for Samaritan source | 214F |
Variation selectors may be used to specify chancery (U+FE00) vs roundhand (U+FE01) forms, if the font supports them:
Code point | Plain | FE00 | FE01 |
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U+212C | ℬ | ℬ︀ | ℬ︁ |
U+2130 | ℰ | ℰ︀ | ℰ︁ |
U+2131 | ℱ | ℱ︀ | ℱ︁ |
U+210B | ℋ | ℋ︀ | ℋ︁ |
U+2110 | ℐ | ℐ︀ | ℐ︁ |
U+2112 | ℒ | ℒ︀ | ℒ︁ |
U+2133 | ℳ | ℳ︀ | ℳ︁ |
U+211B | ℛ | ℛ︀ | ℛ︁ |
The remainder of the set is at Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols.
Letterlike Symbols [1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
U+210x | ℀ | ℁ | ℂ | ℃ | ℄ | ℅ | ℆ | ℇ | ℈ | ℉ | ℊ | ℋ | ℌ | ℍ | ℎ | ℏ |
U+211x | ℐ | ℑ | ℒ | ℓ | ℔ | ℕ | № | ℗ | ℘ | ℙ | ℚ | ℛ | ℜ | ℝ | ℞ | ℟ |
U+212x | ℠ | ℡ | ™ | ℣ | ℤ | ℥ | Ω | ℧ | ℨ | ℩ | K | Å | ℬ | ℭ | ℮ | ℯ |
U+213x | ℰ | ℱ | Ⅎ | ℳ | ℴ | ℵ | ℶ | ℷ | ℸ | ℹ | ℺ | ℻ | ℼ | ℽ | ℾ | ℿ |
U+214x | ⅀ | ⅁ | ⅂ | ⅃ | ⅄ | ⅅ | ⅆ | ⅇ | ⅈ | ⅉ | ⅊ | ⅋ | ⅌ | ⅍ | ⅎ | ⅏ |
Notes
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The Letterlike Symbols block contains two emoji: U+2122 and U+2139. [6] [7]
The block has four standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the two emoji, both of which default to a text presentation. [8]
U+ | 2122 | 2139 |
base code point | ™ | ℹ |
base+VS15 (text) | ™︎ | ℹ︎ |
base+VS16 (emoji) | ™️ | ℹ️ |
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Letterlike Symbols block:
Version | Final code points [lower-alpha 1] | Count | UTC ID | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
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1.0.0 | U+2100..2138 | 57 | (to be determined) | |||
L2/98-419 (pdf, doc) | Aliprand, Joan (1999-02-05), "Script capital P", Approved Minutes -- UTC #78 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 175 Joint Meeting, San Jose, CA -- December 1-4, 1998 | |||||
UTC/1999-017 | Davis, Mark (1999-06-02), Data cross-checks (for Agenda) | |||||
L2/99-176R | Moore, Lisa (1999-11-04), "Data Cross-Checks", Minutes from the joint UTC/L2 meeting in Seattle, June 8-10, 1999 | |||||
L2/05-137 | Freytag, Asmus (2005-05-10), Handling "defective" names | |||||
L2/05-108R | Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), "Consensus 103-C7", UTC #103 Minutes, Create a "Normative Name Alias" property and file in the UCD. Populate the property with names from the sections "Typos" and "Bad or misleading names" from document L2/05-137. | |||||
L2/10-221 | Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), "B.13.3 [U+2107, U+2118]", UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes | |||||
N3903 (pdf, doc) | "M57.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31, WG2 accepts to add the formal name alias "WEIERSTRASS ELLIPTIC FUNCTION" to 2118 SCRIPT CAPITAL P. | |||||
L2/15-050R [lower-alpha 2] [lower-alpha 3] | Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-29), Additional variation selectors for emoji | |||||
L2/20-275R | Sargent, Murray (2021-01-05), Proposed variation sequences for math calligraphic letters | |||||
L2/20-281 | Hudson, John (2020-11-10), Recent evolution of math alphabetic calligraphic script style | |||||
L2/21-016R | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2021-01-14), "25 Math Calligraphic Alphabets", Recommendations to UTC #166 January 2021 on Script Proposals | |||||
L2/21-009 | Moore, Lisa (2021-01-27), "Consensus 166-C33", UTC #166 Minutes, The UTC accepts 52 variation sequences to distinguish roundhand and chancery style mathematical script alphabetic characters | |||||
3.0 | U+2139 | 1 | N1138 | LaBonté, Alain (1995-01-30), Proposal to add new characters (Keyboard related) to 10646 | ||
N1203 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), "6.1.6", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva | |||||
N1303 (html, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-01-26), Minutes of Meeting 29, Tokyo | |||||
L2/97-128 | N1564 | Paterson, Bruce (1997-05-15), Draft pDAM for various additional characters (the "holding bucket") | ||||
L2/97-288 | N1603 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "7.3", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997 | ||||
L2/98-005R | N1682 | Text of ISO 10646 - AMD 22 for PDAM registration and PDAM ballot, 1997-12-17 | ||||
L2/98-320 | N1898 | ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM 22, AMENDMENT 22: Keyboard Symbols, 1998-10-22 | ||||
N1897 | Paterson, Bruce; Everson, Michael (1998-10-22), Disposition of Comments - FPDAM22 - Keyboard Symbols - SC2 N3191 | |||||
L2/99-010 | N1903 (pdf, html, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25 | ||||
L2/99-126 | Paterson, Bruce (1999-04-14), Text for FDAM ballot ISO/IEC 10646 FDAM #22 - Keyboard symbols | |||||
L2/11-438 [lower-alpha 4] [lower-alpha 3] | N4182 | Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429) | ||||
U+213A | 1 | L2/98-215 | N1748 | Everson, Michael (1998-05-25), Additional signature mark characters for the UCS | ||
L2/98-281R (pdf, html) | Aliprand, Joan (1998-07-31), "Signature Marks (IV.C.7)", Unconfirmed Minutes – UTC #77 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 174 JOINT MEETING, Redmond, WA -- July 29-31, 1998 | |||||
L2/98-292R (pdf, html, Figure 1) | "2.7", Comments on proposals to add characters from ISO standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 4, 1998-08-19 | |||||
L2/98-292 | N1840 | "2.7", Comments on proposals to add characters from ISO standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 4, 1998-08-25 | ||||
L2/98-301 | N1847 | Everson, Michael (1998-09-12), Responses to NCITS/L2 and Unicode Consortium comments on numerous proposals | ||||
L2/98-372 | N1884R2 (pdf, doc) | Whistler, Ken; et al. (1998-09-22), Additional Characters for the UCS | ||||
L2/98-329 | N1920 | Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on WD for ISO/IEC 10646-1/Amd. 30, AMENDMENT 30: Additional Latin and other characters, 1998-10-28 | ||||
L2/99-010 | N1903 (pdf, html, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "8.1.5.1", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25 | ||||
3.2 | U+213D..2149, 214B | 14 | L2/00-119 [lower-alpha 5] | N2191R | Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-04-19), Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode | |
L2/00-234 | N2203 (rtf, txt) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.18", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24 | ||||
L2/00-115R2 | Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), "Motion 83-M11", Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83 | |||||
L2/01-050 | N2253 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "RESOLUTION M39.24", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000 | ||||
L2/01-012R | Moore, Lisa (2001-05-21), "Motion 86-M32", Minutes UTC #86 in Mountain View, Jan 2001, Change the name of the proposed character at U+2140 from DOUBLE STRUCK CAPITAL SIGMA to DOUBLE STRUCK N-ARY SUMMATION. | |||||
L2/01-227 | Whistler, Ken (2001-05-22), "ITEM 5", WG2 Consent Docket for UTC #87 | |||||
L2/01-184R | Moore, Lisa (2001-06-18), "Motion 87-M16, ITEM 5", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting | |||||
L2/01-344 | N2353 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), "SE6", Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001 | ||||
U+214A | 1 | L2/98-374 | N1887R | Freytag, Asmus (1998-09-24), Three symbols | ||
L2/99-010 | N1903 (pdf, html, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25 | ||||
L2/00-091 | N2184 | Freytag, Asmus (2000-03-14), Additional information on the proposal to add three symbols | ||||
L2/00-234 | N2203 (rtf, txt) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.7", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24 | ||||
L2/00-115R2 | Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83 | |||||
4.0 | U+213B | 1 | L2/99-353 | N2056 | "3", Amendment of the part concerning the Korean characters in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1998 amendment 5, 1999-07-29 | |
L2/99-380 | Proposal for a New Work item (NP) to amend the Korean part in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993, 1999-12-07 | |||||
L2/99-380.3 | Annex B, Special characters compatible with KPS 9566-97 (To be extended), 1999-12-07 | |||||
L2/00-084 | N2182 | "3", Amendment of the part concerning the Korean characters in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1998 amendment 5 (Cover page and outline of proposal L2/99-380), 1999-12-07 | ||||
L2/99-382 | Whistler, Ken (1999-12-09), "2.3", Comments to accompany a U.S. NO vote on JTC1 N5999, SC2 N3393, New Work item proposal (NP) for an amendment of the Korean part of ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993 | |||||
L2/00-066 | N2170 (pdf, doc) | "3", The technical justification of the proposal to amend the Korean character part of ISO/IEC 10646-1 (proposed addition of 79 symbolic characters), 2000-02-10 | ||||
L2/00-073 | N2167 | Karlsson, Kent (2000-03-02), Comments on DPRK New Work Item proposal on Korean characters | ||||
L2/00-285 | N2244 | Proposal for the Addition of 82 Symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, 2000-08-10 | ||||
L2/00-291 | Everson, Michael (2000-08-30), Comments to Korean proposals (L2/00-284 - 289) | |||||
N2282 | Report of the meeting of the Korean script ad hoc group, 2000-09-21 | |||||
L2/01-349 | N2374R | Proposal to add of 70 symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, 2001-09-03 | ||||
L2/01-387 | N2390 | Kim, Kyongsok (2001-10-13), ROK's Comments about DPRK's proposal, WG2 N 2374, to add 70 symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 | ||||
L2/01-388 | N2392 | Kim, Kyongsok (2001-10-16), A Report of Korean Script ad hoc group meeting on Oct. 15, 2001 | ||||
L2/01-420 | Whistler, Ken (2001-10-30), "f. Miscellaneous symbol additions from DPRK standard", WG2 (Singapore) Resolution Consent Docket for UTC | |||||
L2/01-458 | N2407 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-11-16), Request to Korean ad hoc group to generate mapping tables between ROK and DPRK national standards | ||||
L2/02-372 | N2453 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-10-30), "M42.14 item j", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 42 | ||||
4.1 | U+213C, 214C | 2 | L2/03-194 | N2590 | Freytag, Asmus (2003-06-09), Additional Mathematical and Letterlike Characters | |
L2/04-406 | Freytag, Asmus; Sargent, Murray; Beeton, Barbara; Carlisle, David (2004-11-15), Progress report on Mathematical Symbols | |||||
5.0 | U+214D | 1 | L2/04-394 | N2887, N2889 | Stötzner, Andreas (2004-11-09), Aktieselskab: Proposal to the Unicode Consortium | |
U+214E | 1 | L2/05-076 | Davis, Mark (2005-02-10), Stability of Case Folding | |||
L2/05-183 | N2957 | Everson, Michael; Haugen, Odd Einar; Emiliano, António; Pedro, Susana; Grammel, Florian; Baker, Peter; Stötzner, Andreas; Dohnicht, Marcus; Luft, Diana (2005-08-02), Preliminary proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS | ||||
L2/05-191 | Whistler, Ken (2005-08-02), Proposal for dealing with lowercase Claudian letters | |||||
L2/05-193R2 | N2960R | Everson, Michael (2005-08-12), Proposal to add Claudian Latin letters to the UCS | ||||
N2942 | Freytag, Asmus; Whistler, Ken (2005-08-12), Proposal to add nine lowercase characters | |||||
L2/05-180 | Moore, Lisa (2005-08-17), "Claudian (C.15)", UTC #104 Minutes | |||||
L2/05-108R | Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), "Stability of Case Folding (B.14.2)", UTC #103 Minutes | |||||
N2953 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "7.4.6, 8.2.3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15 | |||||
5.1 | U+214F | 1 | L2/06-245 | N3217 | Hudson, John; et al. (2006-07-27), Proposal to encode Samaritan Text symbol | |
L2/06-324R2 | Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), "Consensus 109-C25", UTC #109 Minutes | |||||
L2/07-268 | N3253 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.17", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27 | ||||
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