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U+213D · DOUBLE-STRUCK SMALL GAMMA

Double-Struck Small Gamma

  • CodepointU+213D
  • NameDOUBLE-STRUCK SMALL GAMMA
  • Decimal8509
  • BlockLetterlike Symbols (U+2100–U+214F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryLl — Lowercase Letter
  • Unicode version3.2 (2002)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+213D (ℽ) is DOUBLE-STRUCK SMALL GAMMA, 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 3.2 (2002).

It is a font variant of U+03B3 γ (compatibility decomposition <font>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+03B3 γ. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type ℽ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 84 BD3 bytes
UTF-16213D1 code unit
UTF-320000213D4 bytes
HTML decimal&#8509;
HTML hex&#x213D;
CSS\213Din content: "…"
JavaScript\u213D
JSON\u213D
Python\u213D
Python\N{DOUBLE-STRUCK SMALL GAMMA}by name
Java / C#\u213D
C / C++\u213Duniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{213D}
Go\u213D
Ruby\u213D
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8509)
URL-encoded%E2%84%BDpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+03B3 γ
NFKDU+03B3 γ
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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+0079yLatin Small Letter Y U+0263ɣLatin Small Letter Gamma U+028FʏLatin Letter Small Capital Y U+03B3γGreek Small Letter Gamma U+0443уCyrillic Small Letter U U+04AFүCyrillic Small Letter Straight U U+10E7ყGeorgian Letter Qar U+1EFFỿLatin Small Letter Y with Loop U+FF59ｙFullwidth Latin Small Letter Y U+1D432𝐲Mathematical Bold Small Y U+1D466𝑦Mathematical Italic Small Y U+1D49A𝒚Mathematical Bold Italic Small Y U+1D4CE𝓎Mathematical Script Small Y U+1D502𝔂Mathematical Bold Script Small Y U+1D536𝔶Mathematical Fraktur Small Y U+1D56A𝕪Mathematical Double-Struck Small Y
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Nearby in Letterlike Symbols

All in block →
U+2137ℷGimel Symbol U+2138ℸDalet Symbol U+2139ℹInformation Source U+213A℺Rotated Capital Q U+213B℻Facsimile Sign U+213CℼDouble-Struck Small Pi 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 U+2143⅃Reversed Sans-Serif Capital L