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U+1D44F Β· MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL B

Mathematical Italic Small B

  • CodepointU+1D44F
  • NameMATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL B
  • Decimal119887
  • BlockMathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (U+1D400–U+1D7FF)
  • Plane1 β€” Supplementary Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryLl β€” Lowercase Letter
  • Unicode version3.1 (2001)
  • Bidi classL β€” Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN β€” Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+1D44F (𝑏) is MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL B, a lowercase letter in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 3.1 (2001).

It is a font variant of U+0062 b (compatibility decomposition <font>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0062 b. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type 𝑏

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder β†’
UTF-8F0 9D 91 8F4 bytes
UTF-16D835 DC4Fsurrogate pair
UTF-320001D44F4 bytes
HTML decimal&#119887;
HTML hex&#x1D44F;
CSS\1D44Fin content: "…"
JavaScript\u{1D44F}ES2015+
JavaScript\uD835\uDC4Fsurrogate pair
JSON\uD835\uDC4F
Python\U0001D44F
Python\N{MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL B}by name
Java / C#\uD835\uDC4F
C / C++\U0001D44Funiversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{1D44F}
Go\U0001D44F
Ruby\u{1D44F}
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(119887)
URL-encoded%F0%9D%91%8Fpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer β†’
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0062 b
NFKDU+0062 b
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+0062bLatin Small Letter B U+0184Ζ„Latin Capital Letter Tone Six U+042CΠ¬Cyrillic Capital Letter Soft Sign U+1D41B𝐛Mathematical Bold Small B U+1D483𝒃Mathematical Bold Italic Small B U+1D4B7𝒷Mathematical Script Small B U+1D4EB𝓫Mathematical Bold Script Small B U+1D51Fπ”ŸMathematical Fraktur Small B U+1D553𝕓Mathematical Double-Struck Small B U+1D587𝖇Mathematical Bold Fraktur Small B U+1D5BB𝖻Mathematical Sans-Serif Small B U+1D5EF𝗯Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small B U+1D623𝘣Mathematical Sans-Serif Italic Small B U+1D657𝙗Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small B U+1D68Bπš‹Mathematical Monospace Small B U+13CFᏏCherokee Letter Si
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Nearby in Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols

All in block β†’
U+1D449𝑉Mathematical Italic Capital V U+1D44Aπ‘ŠMathematical Italic Capital W U+1D44B𝑋Mathematical Italic Capital X U+1D44Cπ‘ŒMathematical Italic Capital Y U+1D44D𝑍Mathematical Italic Capital Z U+1D44Eπ‘ŽMathematical Italic Small A U+1D450𝑐Mathematical Italic Small C U+1D451𝑑Mathematical Italic Small D U+1D452𝑒Mathematical Italic Small E U+1D453𝑓Mathematical Italic Small F U+1D454𝑔Mathematical Italic Small G