U+1D702 "𝜂" Mathematical Italic Small Eta Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𝜂

U+1D702 "𝜂" Mathematical Italic Small Eta is a typographical variant of the Greek letter eta, specifically designed for use in mathematical and scientific notation where variables are conventionally written in an italicized, serif style. It belongs to the "Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols" block of Unicode, which was created to provide distinct codepoints for letters that differ only in style from their standard text counterparts, ensuring proper rendering and semantic clarity in digital documents. This character is frequently employed in fields such as physics and engineering to represent quantities like viscosity, efficiency, or the Minkowski metric, as well as in statistics and mathematics where it often denotes an effect size or a parameter in various equations.

General Properties

Code Point U+1D702
Version Added 3.1
Name Mathematical Italic Small Eta
Block Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Font
Decomposition Mapping "η" U+03B7 Greek Small Letter Eta

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𝜂
HTML Hex Encoding 𝜂
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9D 0x9C 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD835 0xDF02
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001D702
C/C++/Java Escape \ud835\udf02

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 "η" U+03B7 Greek Small Letter Eta
NFKC Simple Casefold "η" U+03B7 Greek Small Letter Eta
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