U+211C "" Black-Letter Capital R Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Source: Browser Default

U+211C "" Black-Letter Capital R is a typographic symbol derived from medieval blackletter or Gothic script, representing a capital R with ornate, angular strokes. In modern usage, it is most commonly employed in mathematics and the hard sciences, particularly to denote the real part of a complex number or the set of real numbers when styled in Fraktur or blackletter type. It also appears in formal academic contexts or decorative text to evoke an old-fashioned or scholarly aesthetic, and it is frequently used as a symbol in logic and set theory.

General Properties

Code Point
U+211C
Name
Black-Letter Capital R
Unicode 1.0 Name
Black-Letter R
Decomposition Mapping

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ℜ
HTML Hex Encoding
ℜ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x84 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding
0x211C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000211C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u211c