Letterlike Symbols


Letterlike Symbols is a Unicode block containing 80 characters which are constructed mainly from the glyphs of one or more letters. In addition to this block, Unicode includes full styled mathematical alphabets, although Unicode does not explicitly categorize these characters as being "letterlike."

Symbols

Glyph variants

Variation selectors may be used to specify chancery vs roundhand forms, if the font supports them:
Code pointPlainFE00FE01
U+212Cℬℬ︀ℬ︁
U+2130ℰℰ︀ℰ︁
U+2131ℱℱ︀ℱ︁
U+210Bℋℋ︀ℋ︁
U+2110ℐℐ︀ℐ︁
U+2112ℒℒ︀ℒ︁
U+2133ℳℳ︀ℳ︁
U+211Bℛℛ︀ℛ︁

The remainder of the set is at Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols.

Emoji

The Letterlike Symbols block contains two emoji:
U+2122 and U+2139.
The block has four standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style or text presentation for the
two emoji, both of which default to a text presentation.
U+21222139
base character™ℹ
base+VS15
base+VS16

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Letterlike Symbols block: