Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols

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Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
Range U+1D400..U+1D7FF
(1024 code points)
Plane SMP
Scripts Common
Symbol sets Mathematical
Assigned 995 code points
Unused 29 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.1 991 (+991)
4.1 993 (+2)
5.0 995 (+2)
Note: [1]

Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols is a Unicode block of Latin and Greek letters and decimal digits that enable mathematicians to denote different notions with different letter styles (one example is blackboard bold, called "double-struck" in Unicode terminology).

Unicode now includes many such symbols (in the range U+1D400 ... U+1D7FF).  The rationale behind this is that it enables design and usage of special mathematical characters (fonts) that include all necessary properties to differentiate from other alphanumerics, e.g. in mathematics an italic "A" can have a different meaning from a roman letter "A". These symbols are to be used only in mathematical formulas, not in general text.

All these letter shapes may be manipulated with MathML's attribute mathvariant.

The letters in various fonts often have specific, fixed meanings in particular areas of mathematics. By providing uniformity over numerous mathematical articles and books, these conventions help to read mathematical formulae.

The introduction date of some of the more commonly used symbols can be found in the Table of mathematical symbols by introduction date.

Tables

Hexadecimal numbers are the code point of the character below them, other characters have a value one greater than the one above them. The characters with pink background are located in other Unicode blocks, such as Letterlike symbols. For example, ℛ (script capital r) is at U+211B. In the case of U+1D4C1 mathematical script small l there is a character here and elsewhere a possibly similar-looking character at U+2113 script small l.[2]

Latin letters

normal bold italic bold
italic
script bold
script
fraktur double-
struck
bold
fraktur
sans-
serif
sans-
serif
bold
sans-
serif
italic
sans-
serif
bold
italic
mono-
space
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
y
z
ı
ȷ

Greek letters and symbols

normal bold italic bold
italic
sans-
serif
bold
sans-
serif
bold
italic
Α
Β
Γ
Δ
Ε
Ζ
Η
Θ
Ι
Κ
Λ
Μ
Ν
Ξ
Ο
Π
Ρ
ϴ
Σ
Τ
Υ
Φ
Χ
Ψ
Ω
α
β
γ
δ
ε
ζ
η
θ
ι
κ
λ
μ
ν
ξ
ο
π
ρ
ς
σ
τ
υ
φ
χ
ψ
ω
ϵ
ϑ
ϰ
ϕ
ϱ
ϖ
Ϝ
ϝ

Digits

normal bold double-
struck
sans-
serif
sans-
serif
bold
mono-
space
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Unicode chart

Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols[1]
Unicode.org chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1D40x
U+1D41x
U+1D42x
U+1D43x
U+1D44x
U+1D45x
U+1D46x
U+1D47x
U+1D48x
U+1D49x
U+1D4Ax
U+1D4Bx
U+1D4Cx
U+1D4Dx
U+1D4Ex
U+1D4Fx
U+1D50x
U+1D51x
U+1D52x
U+1D53x
U+1D54x
U+1D55x
U+1D56x
U+1D57x
U+1D58x
U+1D59x
U+1D5Ax
U+1D5Bx
U+1D5Cx
U+1D5Dx
U+1D5Ex
U+1D5Fx
U+1D60x
U+1D61x
U+1D62x
U+1D63x
U+1D64x
U+1D65x
U+1D66x
U+1D67x
U+1D68x
U+1D69x
U+1D6Ax
U+1D6Bx
U+1D6Cx
U+1D6Dx
U+1D6Ex
U+1D6Fx
U+1D70x
U+1D71x
U+1D72x
U+1D73x
U+1D74x
U+1D75x
U+1D76x
U+1D77x
U+1D78x
U+1D79x
U+1D7Ax
U+1D7Bx
U+1D7Cx
U+1D7Dx
U+1D7Ex
U+1D7Fx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 6.3

See also

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 22 March 2013. 
  2. Unicode code chart U1D400 (PDF)

External links

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