U+1D536 "𝔶" Mathematical Fraktur Small Y Unicode Character

U+1D536 "𝔶" Mathematical Fraktur Small Y is a typographic symbol from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, designed for use in mathematical and scientific texts to represent the variable y in a Fraktur or blackletter style, a script historically associated with German and scholarly writing. This character, part of a larger set of mathematical fraktur letters, allows authors to distinguish variables or denote specific algebraic, logical, or set-theoretic concepts in formal notation, ensuring clarity when standard italic or roman letters might be ambiguous. It is encoded for plain text representation in digital documents, supporting precise rendering in academic papers, mathematical proofs, and symbolic computation contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D536
Version Added	3.1
Name	Mathematical Fraktur Small Y
Block	Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Font
Decomposition Mapping	"y" U+0079 Latin Small Letter Y

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𝔶
HTML Hex Encoding	𝔶
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9D 0x94 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD835 0xDD36
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D536
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud835\udd36

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	"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	Lower