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."

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
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Symbols

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Unicode Letterlike Symbols[3]
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[4] 2106
  Euler constant[5] 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

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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

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Letterlike Symbols[1]
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

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The Letterlike Symbols block contains two emoji: U+2122 and U+2139.[6][7]

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.[8]

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

History

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

See also

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References

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  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.