U+1D70C "𝜌" Mathematical Italic Small Rho Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𝜌

U+1D70C "𝜌" Mathematical Italic Small Rho is a glyph from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, designed to represent the Greek letter rho in a slanted, italic form specifically for use in mathematical and scientific notation. It is distinct from the standard Greek small rho (ρ) found in the basic Greek alphabet, as this version is intended to clearly denote variables, constants, or functions like density or resistivity in equations, ensuring typographic consistency in academic and technical documents. This character helps prevent ambiguity when mixing mathematical expressions with regular text, and its inclusion in Unicode allows researchers, students, and publishers to reliably display and exchange complex formulas across different software and platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+1D70C
Version Added 3.1
Name Mathematical Italic Small Rho
Block Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Font
Decomposition Mapping "ρ" U+03C1 Greek Small Letter Rho

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𝜌
HTML Hex Encoding 𝜌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9D 0x9C 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD835 0xDF0C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001D70C
C/C++/Java Escape \ud835\udf0c

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 "ρ" U+03C1 Greek Small Letter Rho
NFKC Simple Casefold "ρ" U+03C1 Greek Small Letter Rho
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