U+212D "ℭ" Black-Letter Capital C Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ℭ
U+212D "ℭ" Black-Letter Capital C is a stylistic variant of the Latin letter C, rendered in a Fraktur or black-letter typeface, which is historically associated with medieval European manuscripts and early German printing. This character is primarily used in mathematical notation, often to denote the complex numbers, continuous functions, or a cardinal number, distinguishing it from the standard Roman letter C through its ornate, gothic appearance. It belongs to the Letterlike Symbols block and serves a typographic role for authors needing an elegant, historic aesthetic in technical or scholarly texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+212D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Black-Letter Capital C |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Black-Letter C |
| Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Font |
| Decomposition Mapping | "C" U+0043 Latin Capital Letter C |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ℭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ℭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x84 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x212D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000212D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u212d |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "c" U+0063 Latin Small Letter C |
| 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 | Upper |