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ℼ
U+213C · DOUBLE-STRUCK SMALL PI

Double-Struck Small Pi

  • CodepointU+213C
  • NameDOUBLE-STRUCK SMALL PI
  • Decimal8508
  • BlockLetterlike Symbols (U+2100–U+214F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
  • Unicode version4.1 (2005)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+213C (ℼ) is DOUBLE-STRUCK SMALL PI, a lowercase letter in the Letterlike Symbols block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 4.1 (2005).

It is a font variant of U+03C0 π (compatibility decomposition <font>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+03C0 π. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type ℼ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 84 BC3 bytes
UTF-16213C1 code unit
UTF-320000213C4 bytes
HTML decimal&#8508;
HTML hex&#x213C;
CSS\213Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u213C
JSON\u213C
Python\u213C
Python\N{DOUBLE-STRUCK SMALL PI}by name
Java / C#\u213C
C / C++\u213Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{213C}
Go\u213C
Ruby\u213C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8508)
URL-encoded%E2%84%BCpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+03C0 π
NFKDU+03C0 π
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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+03C0πGreek Small Letter Pi U+03D6ϖGreek Pi Symbol U+043FпCyrillic Small Letter Pe U+1D6D1𝛑Mathematical Bold Small Pi U+1D6E1𝛡Mathematical Bold Pi Symbol U+1D70B𝜋Mathematical Italic Small Pi U+1D71B𝜛Mathematical Italic Pi Symbol U+1D745𝝅Mathematical Bold Italic Small Pi U+1D755𝝕Mathematical Bold Italic Pi Symbol U+1D77F𝝿Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Small Pi U+1D78F𝞏Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Pi Symbol U+1D7B9𝞹Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Small Pi U+1D7C9𝟉Mathematical Sans-Serif Bold Italic Pi Symbol U+1D28ᴨGreek Letter Small Capital Pi
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Nearby in Letterlike Symbols

All in block →
U+2136ℶBet Symbol U+2137ℷGimel Symbol U+2138ℸDalet Symbol U+2139ℹInformation Source U+213A℺Rotated Capital Q U+213B℻Facsimile Sign U+213DℽDouble-Struck Small Gamma U+213EℾDouble-Struck Capital Gamma U+213FℿDouble-Struck Capital Pi U+2140⅀Double-Struck N-Ary Summation U+2141⅁Turned Sans-Serif Capital G U+2142⅂Turned Sans-Serif Capital L