U+213E "ℾ" Double-Struck Capital Gamma Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+213E "ℾ" Double-Struck Capital Gamma is a stylistic variant of the Greek capital letter Gamma, rendered in a bold, blackboard bold typeface that is commonly used in mathematical notation to represent specific number sets or specialized functions. This character, part of the Letterlike Symbols block, is distinct from the regular Greek Gamma and is often employed in contexts such as complex analysis or number theory, where it may denote a particular region in the complex plane such as the Gamma function's characteristic contour or a fundamental domain. Unlike the more common double-struck letters for the number sets (like ℝ for real numbers), Double-Struck Capital Gamma appears infrequently and serves a more niche mathematical or technical purpose, emphasizing the formal or abstract nature of the variable or set it represents.

General Properties

Code Point U+213E
Version Added 3.2
Name Double-Struck Capital Gamma
Block Letterlike Symbols
General Category Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Font
Decomposition Mapping "Γ" U+0393 Greek Capital Letter Gamma

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ℾ
HTML Hex Encoding ℾ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0x84 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x213E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000213E
C/C++/Java Escape \u213e

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 "γ" U+03B3 Greek Small Letter Gamma
NFKC Simple Casefold "γ" U+03B3 Greek Small Letter Gamma
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 Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break Upper