U+1D68A "𝚊" Mathematical Monospace Small A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝚊
U+1D68A "𝚊" Mathematical Monospace Small A is a specialized glyph from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, designed to represent the lowercase letter 'a' in a monospace (fixed-width) typeface for use in mathematical and scientific notation. It is distinct from the standard ASCII 'a' or other styled letters, allowing it to convey a specific typographic meaning in contexts like plain text formulas, variable naming, or code-like expressions where a uniform character width is desired. This character helps mathematicians, scientists, and programmers differentiate variables or symbols that might otherwise be ambiguous in complex documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D68A |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Mathematical Monospace Small A |
| Block | Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Font |
| Decomposition Mapping | "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝚊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝚊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0x9A 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD835 0xDE8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D68A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud835\ude8a |
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 | "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A |
| 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 |