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U+1D456 Β· MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL I

Mathematical Italic Small I

  • CodepointU+1D456
  • NameMATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL I
  • Decimal119894
  • 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+1D456 (𝑖) is MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL I, 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+0069 i (compatibility decomposition <font>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0069 i. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type 𝑖

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder β†’
UTF-8F0 9D 91 964 bytes
UTF-16D835 DC56surrogate pair
UTF-320001D4564 bytes
HTML decimal&#119894;
HTML hex&#x1D456;
CSS\1D456in content: "…"
JavaScript\u{1D456}ES2015+
JavaScript\uD835\uDC56surrogate pair
JSON\uD835\uDC56
Python\U0001D456
Python\N{MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL I}by name
Java / C#\uD835\uDC56
C / C++\U0001D456universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{1D456}
Go\U0001D456
Ruby\u{1D456}
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(119894)
URL-encoded%F0%9D%91%96percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer β†’
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0069 i
NFKDU+0069 i
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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+0069iLatin Small Letter I U+0131Δ±Latin Small Letter Dotless I U+0269Ι©Latin Small Letter Iota U+026AΙͺLatin Letter Small Capital I U+02DBΛ›Ogonek U+037AΝΊGreek Ypogegrammeni U+03B9ΞΉGreek Small Letter Iota U+0456Ρ–Cyrillic Small Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I U+04CFӏCyrillic Small Letter Palochka U+1FBEαΎΎGreek Prosgegrammeni U+2139β„ΉInformation Source U+2148β…ˆDouble-Struck Italic Small I U+2170β…°Small Roman Numeral One U+2373⍳APL Functional Symbol Iota U+FF49ｉFullwidth Latin Small Letter I U+1D422𝐒Mathematical Bold Small I
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Nearby in Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols

All in block β†’
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 U+1D457𝑗Mathematical Italic Small J U+1D458π‘˜Mathematical Italic Small K U+1D459𝑙Mathematical Italic Small L U+1D45Aπ‘šMathematical Italic Small M U+1D45B𝑛Mathematical Italic Small N U+1D45Cπ‘œMathematical Italic Small O