U+1D753 "𝝓" Mathematical Bold Italic Phi Symbol Unicode Character

U+1D753 "𝝓" Mathematical Bold Italic Phi Symbol is a typographical variant of the Greek letter phi, designed specifically for mathematical and scientific notation where a bold and italic style helps distinguish variables or constants within equations. It belongs to the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, which was introduced to separate mathematical usage from plain Greek text, allowing for precise formatting in digital formats. This particular glyph combines the traditional phi shape with a slanted, heavier weight, making it useful in fields like physics, engineering, and advanced mathematics for representing quantities such as the golden ratio, magnetic flux, or phase angles in a consistent, machine readable way.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1D753
Version Added	3.1
Name	Mathematical Bold Italic Phi Symbol
Block	Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Font
Decomposition Mapping	"ϕ" U+03D5 Greek Phi Symbol

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𝝓
HTML Hex Encoding	𝝓
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9D 0x9D 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD835 0xDF53
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001D753
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud835\udf53

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	"φ" U+03C6 Greek Small Letter Phi
NFKC Simple Casefold	"φ" U+03C6 Greek Small Letter Phi
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