U+1D718 "𝜘" Mathematical Italic Kappa Symbol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𝜘
U+1D718 "𝜘" Mathematical Italic Kappa Symbol is a typographic variant of the Greek letter kappa (κ), styled in an italic typeface and intended for use in mathematical and scientific notation. It belongs to the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, which was designed to distinguish letters used as variables or constants from regular text, preventing confusion with standard alphabetic characters. This specific glyph represents the italic form of the lowercase kappa and is commonly employed in fields such as physics and algebra to denote parameters, coefficients, or specific constants within formulas and equations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1D718 |
| Version Added | 3.1 |
| Name | Mathematical Italic Kappa Symbol |
| Block | Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Font |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ϰ" U+03F0 Greek Kappa Symbol |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𝜘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𝜘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9D 0x9C 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD835 0xDF18 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001D718 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud835\udf18 |
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 | "κ" U+03BA Greek Small Letter Kappa |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "κ" U+03BA Greek Small Letter Kappa |
| 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 |