U+1D44C "𝑌" Mathematical Italic Capital Y Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝑌
U+1D44C "𝑌" Mathematical Italic Capital Y is a typographic variant of the Latin capital letter Y, designed specifically for mathematical and scientific typesetting to distinguish it from a standard textual letter. It belongs to the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, where it serves as the italicized form of Y, often used to represent variables, matrices, or specific mathematical objects in equations and formulas. This character ensures consistent formatting in documents that require clear differentiation between plain text and mathematical notation, avoiding ambiguity in complex expressions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D44C |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Mathematical Italic Capital Y |
| Block | Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Font |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Y" U+0059 Latin Capital Letter Y |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝑌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝑌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0x91 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD835 0xDC4C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D44C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud835\udc4c |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "y" U+0079 Latin Small Letter Y |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "y" U+0079 Latin Small Letter Y |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Math | Yes |
| Other Math | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |