U+1D6FF "𝛿" Mathematical Italic Small Delta Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𝛿

U+1D6FF "𝛿" Mathematical Italic Small Delta is a typographical variant of the Greek letter delta, designed specifically for use in mathematical and scientific notation where italics are conventionally required to distinguish variables from standard text. It belongs to the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, which was added to Unicode to provide unambiguous representations for letters used in formulae. This character allows writers to represent the delta symbol in its italic form without relying on font styling hacks, ensuring consistent rendering across different platforms and applications. In mathematics, the italic small delta often denotes a small change or increment in a variable, the Dirac delta function in physics, or the discriminant in algebra.

General Properties

Code Point U+1D6FF
Version Added 3.1
Name Mathematical Italic Small Delta
Block Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Font
Decomposition Mapping "δ" U+03B4 Greek Small Letter Delta

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𝛿
HTML Hex Encoding 𝛿
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9D 0x9B 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD835 0xDEFF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001D6FF
C/C++/Java Escape \ud835\udeff

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 "δ" U+03B4 Greek Small Letter Delta
NFKC Simple Casefold "δ" U+03B4 Greek Small Letter Delta
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