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Letterlike Symbols
RangeU+2100..U+214F
(80 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsGreek (1 char.)
Latin (4 char.)
Common (75 char.)
Symbol setsMathematics
abbreviations
Assigned80 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)57 (+57)
3.0 (1999)59 (+2)
3.2 (2002)74 (+15)
4.0 (2003)75 (+1)
4.1 (2005)77 (+2)
5.0 (2006)79 (+2)
5.1 (2008)80 (+1)
Unicode documentation
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Letterlike Symbols is a Unicode block containing 80 characters which are constructed mainly from the glyphs of one or more letters. In addition to this block, Unicode includes full styled mathematical alphabets, although Unicode does not explicitly categorize these characters as being "letterlike."

Symbols

Unicode Letterlike Symbols
Char Image Name Unicode
U+
Account of 2100
Addressed to the subject (i.e., care of) 2101
Double-struck capital C 2102
Degree Celsius 2103
Center line symbol 2104
Care of 2105
Cada una 2106
Euler constant 2107
Scruple 2108
Degree Fahrenheit 2109
Script small G 210A
Script capital H 210B
Black-letter capital H 210C
Double-struck capital H 210D
Planck constant 210E
Reduced Planck constant (Planck constant over 2π) 210F
Script capital I 2110
Black-letter capital I 2111
Script capital L 2112
Script small L (LaTeX: \ell) 2113
L B bar symbol 2114
Double-struck capital N 2115
Numero sign 2116
Sound recording copyright symbol 2117
Script capital P
alias: Weierstrass elliptic function
2118
Double-struck capital P 2119
Double-struck capital Q 211A
Script capital R 211B
Black-letter capital R 211C
Double-struck capital R 211D
Prescription take 211E
Response 211F
Service mark 2120
Telephone sign 2121
Trademark sign 2122
Versicle 2123
Double-struck capital Z 2124
Ounce sign 2125
Ω Ohm sign 2126
Inverted ohm sign 2127
Black-letter capital Z 2128
Turned Greek small letter iota 2129
K Kelvin sign 212A
Å Ångström sign 212B
Script capital B 212C
Black-letter capital C 212D
Estimated symbol 212E
Script small E 212F
Script capital E 2130
Script capital F 2131
Turned capital F 2132
Script capital M 2133
Script small O 2134
Alef symbol 2135
Bet symbol 2136
Gimel symbol 2137
Dalet symbol 2138
Information source 2139
Rotated capital Q 213A
Fax sign 213B
Double-struck small pi 213C
Double-struck small gamma 213D
Double-struck capital gamma 213E
Double-struck capital pi 213F
Double-struck n-ary summation 2140
Turned sans-serif capital G 2141
Turned sans-serif capital L 2142
Reversed sans-serif capital L 2143
Turned sans-serif capital Y 2144
Double-struck italic capital D 2145
Double-struck italic small D 2146
Double-struck italic small E 2147
Double-struck italic small I 2148
Double-struck italic small J 2149
Property line 214A
Turned ampersand 214B
Per sign 214C
Aktieselskab 214D
Turned small F 214E
Symbol for Samaritan source 214F

Glyph variants

Variation selectors may be used to specify chancery (U+FE00) vs roundhand (U+FE01) forms, if the font supports them:

Code point Plain FE00 FE01
U+212C ℬ︀ ℬ︁
U+2130 ℰ︀ ℰ︁
U+2131 ℱ︀ ℱ︁
U+210B ℋ︀ ℋ︁
U+2110 ℐ︀ ℐ︁
U+2112 ℒ︀ ℒ︁
U+2133 ℳ︀ ℳ︁
U+211B ℛ︀ ℛ︁

The remainder of the set is at Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols.

Block

Letterlike Symbols
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+210x
U+211x
U+212x
U+213x
U+214x
Notes
1. As of Unicode version 16.0

Emoji

The Letterlike Symbols block contains two emoji: U+2122 and U+2139.

The block has four standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the two emoji, both of which default to a text presentation.

Emoji variation sequences
U+ 2122 2139
base code point
base+VS15 (text) ™︎ ℹ︎
base+VS16 (emoji) ™️ ℹ️

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Letterlike Symbols block:

Version Final code points Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.0.0 U+2100..2138 57 (to be determined)
L2/98-419 (pdf, doc) Aliprand, Joan (1999-02-05), "Script capital P", Approved Minutes -- UTC #78 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 175 Joint Meeting, San Jose, CA -- December 1-4, 1998
UTC/1999-017 Davis, Mark (1999-06-02), Data cross-checks (for Agenda)
L2/99-176R Moore, Lisa (1999-11-04), "Data Cross-Checks", Minutes from the joint UTC/L2 meeting in Seattle, June 8-10, 1999
L2/05-137 Freytag, Asmus (2005-05-10), Handling "defective" names
L2/05-108R Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), "Consensus 103-C7", UTC #103 Minutes, Create a "Normative Name Alias" property and file in the UCD. Populate the property with names from the sections "Typos" and "Bad or misleading names" from document L2/05-137.
L2/10-221 Moore, Lisa (2010-08-23), "B.13.3 ", UTC #124 / L2 #221 Minutes
N3903 (pdf, doc) "M57.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31, WG2 accepts to add the formal name alias "WEIERSTRASS ELLIPTIC FUNCTION" to 2118 SCRIPT CAPITAL P.
L2/15-050R Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-29), Additional variation selectors for emoji
L2/20-275R Sargent, Murray (2021-01-05), Proposed variation sequences for math calligraphic letters
L2/20-281 Hudson, John (2020-11-10), Recent evolution of math alphabetic calligraphic script style
L2/21-016R Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2021-01-14), "25 Math Calligraphic Alphabets", Recommendations to UTC #166 January 2021 on Script Proposals
L2/21-009 Moore, Lisa (2021-01-27), "Consensus 166-C33", UTC #166 Minutes, The UTC accepts 52 variation sequences to distinguish roundhand and chancery style mathematical script alphabetic characters
3.0 U+2139 1 N1138 LaBonté, Alain (1995-01-30), Proposal to add new characters (Keyboard related) to 10646
N1203 Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), "6.1.6", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva
N1303 (html, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1996-01-26), Minutes of Meeting 29, Tokyo
L2/97-128 N1564 Paterson, Bruce (1997-05-15), Draft pDAM for various additional characters (the "holding bucket")
L2/97-288 N1603 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "7.3", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997
L2/98-005R N1682 Text of ISO 10646 - AMD 22 for PDAM registration and PDAM ballot, 1997-12-17
L2/98-320 N1898 ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM 22, AMENDMENT 22: Keyboard Symbols, 1998-10-22
N1897 Paterson, Bruce; Everson, Michael (1998-10-22), Disposition of Comments - FPDAM22 - Keyboard Symbols - SC2 N3191
L2/99-010 N1903 (pdf, html, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
L2/99-126 Paterson, Bruce (1999-04-14), Text for FDAM ballot ISO/IEC 10646 FDAM #22 - Keyboard symbols
L2/11-438 N4182 Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
U+213A 1 L2/98-215 N1748 Everson, Michael (1998-05-25), Additional signature mark characters for the UCS
L2/98-281R (pdf, html) Aliprand, Joan (1998-07-31), "Signature Marks (IV.C.7)", Unconfirmed Minutes – UTC #77 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 174 JOINT MEETING, Redmond, WA -- July 29-31, 1998
L2/98-292R (pdf, html, Figure 1) "2.7", Comments on proposals to add characters from ISO standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 4, 1998-08-19
L2/98-292 N1840 "2.7", Comments on proposals to add characters from ISO standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 4, 1998-08-25
L2/98-301 N1847 Everson, Michael (1998-09-12), Responses to NCITS/L2 and Unicode Consortium comments on numerous proposals
L2/98-372 N1884R2 (pdf, doc) Whistler, Ken; et al. (1998-09-22), Additional Characters for the UCS
L2/98-329 N1920 Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on WD for ISO/IEC 10646-1/Amd. 30, AMENDMENT 30: Additional Latin and other characters, 1998-10-28
L2/99-010 N1903 (pdf, html, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "8.1.5.1", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
3.2 U+213D..2149, 214B 14 L2/00-119 N2191R Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-04-19), Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode
L2/00-234 N2203 (rtf, txt) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.18", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24
L2/00-115R2 Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), "Motion 83-M11", Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83
L2/01-050 N2253 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "RESOLUTION M39.24", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000
L2/01-012R Moore, Lisa (2001-05-21), "Motion 86-M32", Minutes UTC #86 in Mountain View, Jan 2001, Change the name of the proposed character at U+2140 from DOUBLE STRUCK CAPITAL SIGMA to DOUBLE STRUCK N-ARY SUMMATION.
L2/01-227 Whistler, Ken (2001-05-22), "ITEM 5", WG2 Consent Docket for UTC #87
L2/01-184R Moore, Lisa (2001-06-18), "Motion 87-M16, ITEM 5", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting
L2/01-344 N2353 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), "SE6", Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001
U+214A 1 L2/98-374 N1887R Freytag, Asmus (1998-09-24), Three symbols
L2/99-010 N1903 (pdf, html, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
L2/00-091 N2184 Freytag, Asmus (2000-03-14), Additional information on the proposal to add three symbols
L2/00-234 N2203 (rtf, txt) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.7", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24
L2/00-115R2 Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83
4.0 U+213B 1 L2/99-353 N2056 "3", Amendment of the part concerning the Korean characters in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1998 amendment 5, 1999-07-29
L2/99-380 Proposal for a New Work item (NP) to amend the Korean part in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993, 1999-12-07
L2/99-380.3 Annex B, Special characters compatible with KPS 9566-97 (To be extended), 1999-12-07
L2/00-084 N2182 "3", Amendment of the part concerning the Korean characters in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1998 amendment 5 (Cover page and outline of proposal L2/99-380), 1999-12-07
L2/99-382 Whistler, Ken (1999-12-09), "2.3", Comments to accompany a U.S. NO vote on JTC1 N5999, SC2 N3393, New Work item proposal (NP) for an amendment of the Korean part of ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993
L2/00-066 N2170 (pdf, doc) "3", The technical justification of the proposal to amend the Korean character part of ISO/IEC 10646-1 (proposed addition of 79 symbolic characters), 2000-02-10
L2/00-073 N2167 Karlsson, Kent (2000-03-02), Comments on DPRK New Work Item proposal on Korean characters
L2/00-285 N2244 Proposal for the Addition of 82 Symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, 2000-08-10
L2/00-291 Everson, Michael (2000-08-30), Comments to Korean proposals (L2/00-284 - 289)
N2282 Report of the meeting of the Korean script ad hoc group, 2000-09-21
L2/01-349 N2374R Proposal to add of 70 symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, 2001-09-03
L2/01-387 N2390 Kim, Kyongsok (2001-10-13), ROK's Comments about DPRK's proposal, WG2 N 2374, to add 70 symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000
L2/01-388 N2392 Kim, Kyongsok (2001-10-16), A Report of Korean Script ad hoc group meeting on Oct. 15, 2001
L2/01-420 Whistler, Ken (2001-10-30), "f. Miscellaneous symbol additions from DPRK standard", WG2 (Singapore) Resolution Consent Docket for UTC
L2/01-458 N2407 Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-11-16), Request to Korean ad hoc group to generate mapping tables between ROK and DPRK national standards
L2/02-372 N2453 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-10-30), "M42.14 item j", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 42
4.1 U+213C, 214C 2 L2/03-194 N2590 Freytag, Asmus (2003-06-09), Additional Mathematical and Letterlike Characters
L2/04-406 Freytag, Asmus; Sargent, Murray; Beeton, Barbara; Carlisle, David (2004-11-15), Progress report on Mathematical Symbols
5.0 U+214D 1 L2/04-394 N2887, N2889 Stötzner, Andreas (2004-11-09), Aktieselskab: Proposal to the Unicode Consortium
U+214E 1 L2/05-076 Davis, Mark (2005-02-10), Stability of Case Folding
L2/05-183 N2957 Everson, Michael; Haugen, Odd Einar; Emiliano, António; Pedro, Susana; Grammel, Florian; Baker, Peter; Stötzner, Andreas; Dohnicht, Marcus; Luft, Diana (2005-08-02), Preliminary proposal to add medievalist characters to the UCS
L2/05-191 Whistler, Ken (2005-08-02), Proposal for dealing with lowercase Claudian letters
L2/05-193R2 N2960R Everson, Michael (2005-08-12), Proposal to add Claudian Latin letters to the UCS
N2942 Freytag, Asmus; Whistler, Ken (2005-08-12), Proposal to add nine lowercase characters
L2/05-180 Moore, Lisa (2005-08-17), "Claudian (C.15)", UTC #104 Minutes
L2/05-108R Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), "Stability of Case Folding (B.14.2)", UTC #103 Minutes
N2953 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "7.4.6, 8.2.3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
5.1 U+214F 1 L2/06-245 N3217 Hudson, John; et al. (2006-07-27), Proposal to encode Samaritan Text symbol
L2/06-324R2 Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), "Consensus 109-C25", UTC #109 Minutes
L2/07-268 N3253 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.17", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. See also L2/13-207, L2/14-054, L2/14-063, L2/15-051A, L2/15-051B
  3. ^ Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents
  4. See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429
  5. Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block for additional math-related documents

See also

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. Unicode chart (PDF)
  4. Spanish for "each one."
  5. It is unknown which constant this is supposed to be. Xerox standard XCCS 353/046 just says "Euler's."
  6. "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.
  7. "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
  8. "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
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