Technical information

Symbol
NameDouble-struck italic small i
Unicode numberU+2148
CategoryDouble-struck symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ⅈ, or U+2148, is known as the "Double-Struck Italic Small I". It belongs to the "Letterlike Symbols" block and falls under the "Letter, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a representation of the lowercase letter "i" written in a double-struck and italic style. Double-struck italic characters are often used in mathematical contexts to represent specific mathematical constructs or entities, such as the imaginary unit in complex numbers. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entityⅈ
HTML Entity (hex)ⅈ
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%E2%85%88
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x85 0x88
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10000101:10001000
UTF-160x2148
UTF-320x00002148

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2148"
CSS Code\2148
JavaScript"\u2148"
Perl\x{2148}
Python 2u"\u2148"
Python 3\u2148
Ruby\u{2148}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ⅈ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#8520;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2148";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References