U+1D6A2 "𝚢" Mathematical Monospace Small Y Unicode Character

U+1D6A2 "𝚢" Mathematical Monospace Small Y is a typographic variant of the Latin letter Y, specifically designed for use in mathematical and technical contexts where a monospaced, typewriter style font is required. It belongs to the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, which was created to provide distinct, semantically clear characters for mathematical formulas, differentiating them from regular text. This character is not intended for use in ordinary prose but is instead used in scientific notation, computer science papers, or programming documentation to represent variables or identifiers with a fixed width appearance, ensuring precision and avoiding conflicts with standard typographic characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D6A2
Version Added	3.1
Name	Mathematical Monospace 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 0x9A 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD835 0xDEA2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D6A2
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud835\udea2

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