Letterlike Symbols
Encyclopedia
Letterlike Symbols are graphemes (character
s) which are constructed mainly from the glyph
s of one or more letter
s.
In Unicode
, Letterlike Symbols are placed in the block U+2100–214F, as in the following table.
Character (computing)
In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language....
s) which are constructed mainly from the glyph
Glyph
A glyph is an element of writing: an individual mark on a written medium that contributes to the meaning of what is written. A glyph is made up of one or more graphemes....
s of one or more letter
Letter (alphabet)
A letter is a grapheme in an alphabetic system of writing, such as the Greek alphabet and its descendants. Letters compose phonemes and each phoneme represents a phone in the spoken form of the language....
s.
In Unicode
Unicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
, Letterlike Symbols are placed in the block U+2100–214F, as in the following table.
Char Character (computing) In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language.... |
Image | Name | Unicode U+ |
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℀ | Account Of | 2100 | |
℁ | Addressed To The Subject | 2101 | |
ℂ | Double-Struck Capital C | 2102 | |
℃ | Degree Celsius Celsius Celsius is a scale and unit of measurement for temperature. It is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius , who developed a similar temperature scale two years before his death... |
2103 | |
℄ | Centre line Symbol | 2104 | |
℅ | Care Of | 2105 | |
℆ | Cada Una | 2106 | |
ℇ | Euler constant | 2107 | |
℈ | Scruple Apothecaries' system The apothecaries' system of weights is a historical system of mass units that were used by physicians and apothecaries for medical recipes, and also sometimes by scientists. The English version of the system is closely related with the English troy system of weights, the pound and grain being... |
2108 | |
℉ | Degree Fahrenheit Fahrenheit Fahrenheit is the temperature scale proposed in 1724 by, and named after, the German physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit . Within this scale, the freezing of water into ice is defined at 32 degrees, while the boiling point of water is defined to be 212 degrees... |
2109 | |
ℊ | Script Small G | 210a | |
ℋ | Script Capital H | 210b | |
ℌ | Black-Letter Capital H | 210c | |
ℍ | Double-Struck Capital H | 210d | |
ℎ | Planck constant Planck constant The Planck constant , also called Planck's constant, is a physical constant reflecting the sizes of energy quanta in quantum mechanics. It is named after Max Planck, one of the founders of quantum theory, who discovered it in 1899... |
210e | |
ℏ | Planck Constant Over Two Pi | 210f | |
ℐ | Script Capital I | 2110 | |
ℑ | Black-Letter Capital I | 2111 | |
ℒ | Script Capital L | 2112 | |
ℓ | Script Small L (LaTeX: \ell) | 2113 | |
℔ | L B Bar Symbol | 2114 | |
ℕ | Double-Struck Capital N | 2115 | |
№ | Numero sign Numero sign The numero sign or numero symbol is a typographic abbreviation of the word number indicating ordinal numeration, especially in names and titles... |
2116 | |
℗ | Sound recording copyright symbol Sound recording copyright symbol The ' symbol, a circled P, is the copyright symbol used to provide notice of copyright in a sound recording . The use of the symbol originated in United States copyright law and is specified internationally in the Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized... |
2117 | |
℘ | Script Capital P Weierstrass p In mathematics, the Weierstrass p , also called pe, is used for the Weierstrass's elliptic function. It is occasionally used for the power set, although for that purpose a cursive capital, rather than lower-case, p is more widespread... |
2118 | |
ℙ | Double-Struck Capital P | 2119 | |
ℚ | Double-Struck Capital Q | 211a | |
ℛ | Script Capital R | 211b | |
ℜ | Black-Letter Capital R | 211c | |
ℝ | Double-Struck Capital R | 211d | |
℞ | Prescription Medical prescription A prescription is a health-care program implemented by a physician or other medical practitioner in the form of instructions that govern the plan of care for an individual patient. Prescriptions may include orders to be performed by a patient, caretaker, nurse, pharmacist or other therapist.... Take |
211e | |
℟ | Response | 211f | |
℠ | Service mark Service mark A service mark or servicemark is a trademark used in some countries, notably the United States, to identify a service rather than a product. When a service mark is federally registered, the standard registration symbol ® or "Reg U.S. Pat & TM Off" may be used... |
2120 | |
℡ | Telephone Sign | 2121 | |
™ | Trademark Trademark A trademark, trade mark, or trade-mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify that the products or services to consumers with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source, and to distinguish its products or... Sign |
2122 | |
℣ | Versicle | 2123 | |
ℤ | Double-Struck Capital Z | 2124 | |
℥ | Ounce Ounce The ounce is a unit of mass with several definitions, the most commonly used of which are equal to approximately 28 grams. The ounce is used in a number of different systems, including various systems of mass that form part of the imperial and United States customary systems... Sign |
2125 | |
Ω | Ohm Ohm The ohm is the SI unit of electrical resistance, named after German physicist Georg Simon Ohm.- Definition :The ohm is defined as a resistance between two points of a conductor when a constant potential difference of 1 volt, applied to these points, produces in the conductor a current of 1 ampere,... Sign |
2126 | |
℧ | Inverted Ohm Sign | 2127 | |
ℨ | Black-Letter Capital Z | 2128 | |
℩ | Turned Greek Small Letter Iota Iota Iota is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 10. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Yodh . Letters that arose from this letter include the Roman I and J and the Cyrillic І , Yi , Je , and iotified letters .Iota represents... |
2129 | |
K K K is the eleventh letter of the English and basic modern Latin alphabet.-History and usage:In English, the letter K usually represents the voiceless velar plosive; this sound is also transcribed by in the International Phonetic Alphabet and X-SAMPA.... |
Kelvin Kelvin The kelvin is a unit of measurement for temperature. It is one of the seven base units in the International System of Units and is assigned the unit symbol K. The Kelvin scale is an absolute, thermodynamic temperature scale using as its null point absolute zero, the temperature at which all... Sign |
212a | |
Å Å Å represents various sounds in several languages. Å is part of the alphabets used for the Alemannic and the Bavarian-Austrian dialects of German... |
Ångström Ångström The angstrom or ångström, is a unit of length equal to 1/10,000,000,000 of a meter . Its symbol is the Swedish letter Å.... Sign |
212b | |
ℬ | Script Capital B | 212c | |
ℭ | Black-Letter Capital C | 212d | |
℮ | Estimated symbol | 212e | |
ℯ | Script Small E | 212f | |
ℰ | Script Capital E | 2130 | |
ℱ | Script Capital F | 2131 | |
Ⅎ | Turned Capital F | 2132 | |
ℳ | Script Capital M | 2133 | |
ℴ | Script Small O | 2134 | |
ℵ | Alef Symbol | 2135 | |
ℶ | Bet Bet (letter) Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of many Semitic abjads, including Arabic alphabet , Aramaic, Hebrew , Phoenician and Syriac... Symbol |
2136 | |
ℷ | Gimel Symbol | 2137 | |
ℸ | Dalet Dalet Dalet is the fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew , Syriac and Arabic... Symbol |
2138 | |
ℹ | Information Source | 2139 | |
℺ | Rotated Capital Q | 213a | |
℻ | Fax Fax Fax , sometimes called telecopying, is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material , normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device... Sign |
213b | |
ℼ | Double-Struck Small Pi Pi ' is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter. is approximately equal to 3.14. Many formulae in mathematics, science, and engineering involve , which makes it one of the most important mathematical constants... |
213c | |
ℽ | Double-Struck Small Gamma Gamma Gamma is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 3. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Gimel . Letters that arose from Gamma include the Roman C and G and the Cyrillic letters Ge Г and Ghe Ґ.-Greek:In Ancient Greek, gamma represented a... |
213d | |
ℾ | Double-Struck Capital Gamma Gamma Gamma is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 3. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Gimel . Letters that arose from Gamma include the Roman C and G and the Cyrillic letters Ge Г and Ghe Ґ.-Greek:In Ancient Greek, gamma represented a... |
213e | |
ℿ | Double-Struck Capital Pi | 213f | |
⅀ | Double–Struck N–Ary Summation Summation Summation is the operation of adding a sequence of numbers; the result is their sum or total. If numbers are added sequentially from left to right, any intermediate result is a partial sum, prefix sum, or running total of the summation. The numbers to be summed may be integers, rational numbers,... |
2140 | |
⅁ | Turned Sans-Serif Capital G | 2141 | |
⅂ | Turned Sans-Serif Capital L | 2142 | |
⅃ | Reversed Sans-Serif Capital L | 2143 | |
⅄ | Turned Sans-Serif Capital Y | 2144 | |
ⅅ | Double-Struck Italic Capital D | 2145 | |
ⅆ | Double-Struck Italic Small D | 2146 | |
ⅇ | Double-Struck Italic Small E | 2147 | |
ⅈ | Double-Struck Italic Small I | 2148 | |
ⅉ | Double-Struck Italic Small J | 2149 | |
⅊ | Property line Property line Property line describes the legal boundary of a parcel of land. The boundary is established by a professional surveyor using a transit and or modern Global Positioning System technology... |
214a | |
⅋ | Turned Ampersand Ampersand An ampersand is a logogram representing the conjunction word "and". The symbol is a ligature of the letters in et, Latin for "and".-Etymology:... |
214b | |
⅌ | Per Sign | 214c | |
⅍ | Aktieselskab Aktieselskab An aktieselskab is the Danish name for a stock-based corporation. An aktieselskab can be both publicly traded and private.-Liability:... |
214d | |
ⅎ | Turned Small F | 214e | |
⅏ | Symbol for Samaritan Samaritan The Samaritans are an ethnoreligious group of the Levant. Religiously, they are the adherents to Samaritanism, an Abrahamic religion closely related to Judaism... Source |
214f |
See also
- Mapping of Unicode charactersMapping of Unicode charactersUnicode’s Universal Character Set has a potential capacity to support over 1 million characters. Each UCS character is mapped to a code point which is an integer between 0 and 1,114,111 used to represent each character within the internal logic of text processing software .As of Unicode 5.2.0,...
- Latin characters in Unicode
- Unicode SymbolsUnicode SymbolsIn computing, in addition to encoding characters for the various writing systems used throughout the World, Unicode also devotes several blocks of characters to symbols that have a well-defined place in plain text. In Unicode there is a main distinction between "scripts" and "symbols". A character...
- Mathematical alphanumeric symbols Unicode block