U+1D460 "𝑠" Mathematical Italic Small S Unicode Character

U+1D460 "𝑠" Mathematical Italic Small S is a specialized typographic symbol belonging to the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, designed for use in mathematical and scientific notation where italicized letters are needed to represent variables, functions, or constants distinct from standard Latin text. It visually resembles a lowercase italic "s" but is encoded as a separate character to preserve semantic meaning, allowing documents to display mathematical expressions correctly regardless of the surrounding font's style. This character is commonly employed in fields like physics, engineering, and computer science when writing equations or formulas that require a clear italic small s without relying on font formatting alone.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D460
Version Added	3.1
Name	Mathematical Italic Small S
Block	Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Font
Decomposition Mapping	"s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𝑠
HTML Hex Encoding	𝑠
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9D 0x91 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD835 0xDC60
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D460
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud835\udc60

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Lowercase	Yes
Cased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S
NFKC Simple Casefold	"s" U+0073 Latin Small Letter S
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	Lower