U+1D60E "𝘎" Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Capital G Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𝘎

U+1D60E "𝘎" Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Capital G is a typographic glyph designed for use in mathematical and scientific notation, rather than standard text. It belongs to the block known as "Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols," which was added to the Unicode standard to allow authors to clearly distinguish variables and constants from ordinary letters in ambiguous contexts. This specific character represents the capital letter 'G' rendered in a sans-serif italic style, making it suitable for use as a variable, a tensor index, or a symbolic constant in fields like physics, engineering, and linear algebra. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that such notation can be represented reliably across different software platforms and digital documents without relying on font formatting or workarounds.

General Properties

Code Point U+1D60E
Version Added 3.1
Name Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Capital G
Block Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Font
Decomposition Mapping "G" U+0047 Latin Capital Letter G

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𝘎
HTML Hex Encoding 𝘎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9D 0x98 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD835 0xDE0E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001D60E
C/C++/Java Escape \ud835\ude0e

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 "g" U+0067 Latin Small Letter G
NFKC Simple Casefold "g" U+0067 Latin Small Letter G
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