U+1D748 "𝝈" Mathematical Bold Italic Small Sigma Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𝝈

U+1D748 "𝝈" Mathematical Bold Italic Small Sigma is a specialized glyph from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, designed for use in scientific and mathematical typesetting where a bold italic variant of the lowercase Greek letter sigma is needed, most commonly to represent summation notation or standard deviation in statistics and other formal expressions. This character allows authors and typesetting systems to clearly distinguish mathematical variables from plain text, maintaining semantic precision in digital documents and academic papers. It is part of a larger set of over a thousand mathematical alphanumeric symbols that provide style variations for Latin and Greek letters, ensuring compatibility across different platforms and fonts in Unicode compliant software.

General Properties

Code Point U+1D748
Version Added 3.1
Name Mathematical Bold Italic Small Sigma
Block Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
General Category Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Font
Decomposition Mapping "σ" U+03C3 Greek Small Letter Sigma

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𝝈
HTML Hex Encoding 𝝈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9D 0x9D 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD835 0xDF48
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001D748
C/C++/Java Escape \ud835\udf48

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 "σ" U+03C3 Greek Small Letter Sigma
NFKC Simple Casefold "σ" U+03C3 Greek Small Letter Sigma
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