U+1D70A "𝜊" Mathematical Italic Small Omicron Unicode Character

U+1D70A "𝜊" Mathematical Italic Small Omicron is a typographical glyph used primarily in mathematical notation to represent the Greek letter omicron in an italic style, distinguishing it from the standard Latin letter 'o'. It belongs to the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, which provides specific, uniquely encoded forms of letters and symbols for precise mathematical typesetting. This character is often employed in formulas, scientific papers, and textbooks when the omicron variable or constant must be clearly identified as a mathematical symbol, preventing confusion with similar-looking characters in different scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D70A
Version Added	3.1
Name	Mathematical Italic Small Omicron
Block	Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Font
Decomposition Mapping	"ο" U+03BF Greek Small Letter Omicron

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𝜊
HTML Hex Encoding	𝜊
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9D 0x9C 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD835 0xDF0A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D70A
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud835\udf0a

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	"ο" U+03BF Greek Small Letter Omicron
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ο" U+03BF Greek Small Letter Omicron
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