U+212D "ℭ" Black-Letter Capital C Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
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
Name
Black-Letter Capital C
Unicode 1.0 Name
Black-Letter C
Decomposition Mapping
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
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Common