U+2137 "" Gimel Symbol Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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U+2137 "" Gimel Symbol is a typographic representation of the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet, gimel, used within mathematical notation to denote specific functions or logical concepts, most notably the gimel function in set theory which describes cardinal exponentiation. It differs from the regular Hebrew letter gimel (ג) in that it is designed to align with mathematical fonts and is often employed in formal proofs and discussions of infinite cardinal numbers. This character belongs to the Letterlike Symbols block in Unicode, serving as a semantic symbol rather than a simple alphabetic character.

General Properties

Code Point
U+2137
Name
Gimel Symbol
Unicode 1.0 Name
Third Transfinite Cardinal
Decomposition Mapping

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ℷ
HTML Hex Encoding
ℷ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x84 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2137
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002137
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2137