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U+2148 · DOUBLE-STRUCK ITALIC SMALL I

Double-Struck Italic Small I

  • CodepointU+2148
  • NameDOUBLE-STRUCK ITALIC SMALL I
  • Decimal8520
  • 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+2148 (ⅈ) is DOUBLE-STRUCK ITALIC SMALL I, 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+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 →
UTF-8E2 85 883 bytes
UTF-1621481 code unit
UTF-32000021484 bytes
HTML named&ii;named character reference
HTML named&ImaginaryI;named character reference
HTML decimal&#8520;
HTML hex&#x2148;
CSS\2148in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2148
JSON\u2148
Python\u2148
Python\N{DOUBLE-STRUCK ITALIC SMALL I}by name
Java / C#\u2148
C / C++\u2148universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2148}
Go\u2148
Ruby\u2148
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(8520)
URL-encoded%E2%85%88percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
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+0131ıLatin Small Letter Dotless I U+0269ɩLatin Small Letter Iota U+026AɪLatin Letter Small Capital I U+02DB˛Ogonek U+037AͺGreek Ypogegrammeni U+03B9ιGreek Small Letter Iota U+0456іCyrillic Small Letter Byelorussian-Ukrainian I U+04CFӏCyrillic Small Letter Palochka U+1FBEιGreek Prosgegrammeni U+2139ℹInformation Source U+2170ⅰSmall Roman Numeral One U+2373⍳APL Functional Symbol Iota U+FF49ｉFullwidth Latin Small Letter I U+1D422𝐢Mathematical Bold Small I U+1D456𝑖Mathematical Italic Small I
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Nearby in Letterlike Symbols

All in block →
U+2142⅂Turned Sans-Serif Capital L U+2143⅃Reversed Sans-Serif Capital L U+2144⅄Turned Sans-Serif Capital Y U+2145ⅅDouble-Struck Italic Capital D U+2146ⅆDouble-Struck Italic Small D U+2147ⅇDouble-Struck Italic Small E U+2149ⅉDouble-Struck Italic Small J U+214A⅊Property Line U+214B⅋Turned Ampersand U+214C⅌Per Sign U+214D⅍Aktieselskab U+214EⅎTurned Small F