Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Capital U 𝘜
Visual Description: A clean glyph with a sans serif, italic look. It is a capital U with even strokes and a subtle slant. The lines are uniform and rounded at the corners. It sits in formulas alongside other letters and symbols. The overall impression is modern and legible on screens and print.
Meaning & Usage: This character carries no fixed value by itself. Its meaning comes from the font style and the surrounding math. It marks a variable or a label when a sans-serif italic set is used. In calculators and editors, users choose this style to distinguish certain symbols.
Historical Background: Type designers created families of font variants to help readers tell apart variables, constants, and functions. Digital tools later expanded these families, letting users apply different shapes with a click. The idea is to improve clarity without changing mathematical content. The glyph is one example of this practice.
Practical Use: In formulas you might use it to label a variable or represent a unit in a specific font. Calculators and math editors offer quick UI controls to switch to sans-serif italic style, compare styles side by side, or apply a palette to highlight parts of an equation. This helps readability and quick reasoning.
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Look‑alikes: U (U+55).
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Confusables
Technical details
- Codepoint:
U+1D61C - General Category:
Lu - Age:
3.1 - Bidi Class:
L - Decomposition:
<font> 0055 - Block:
Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols - Script:
Common - UTF-8:
F0 9D 98 9C - UTF-16:
D835 DE1C - UTF-32:
0001D61C - HTML dec:
𝘜 - HTML hex:
𝘜 - JS escape:
\u{1D61C} - Python \N{}:
\N{MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF ITALIC CAPITAL U} - Python \U:
\U0001D61C - URL-encoded:
%F0%9D%98%9C - CSS escape:
\1D61C
How to type / insert
Fast copy: click the Copy button near the top of this page.
By codepoint: in many editors and IDEs, you can insert via the Unicode code U+1D61C or a built‑in character picker.
HTML: use the numeric entity 혜 (hex) or 혜 (decimal) when an HTML entity is needed.
Compatibility & troubleshooting
Font support: if the symbol does not render, the current font likely lacks this codepoint. Choose a font with broad Unicode coverage or allow a fallback font.
Web pages: ensure your CSS font stack includes a general fallback; avoid relying on images for common symbols to preserve accessibility and copyability.