Double-Struck Small Pi ℼ
Symbol Meaning
The lowercase letter “pi” is popular in mathematics and the natural sciences. It is commonly used to denote one of the fundamental constants (3.14), matrices, osmotic pressure, parallax, etc. It is also employed to write about inflation and profit in economics.
Imagine that you have multiple phenomena or quantities denoted by the lowercase letter pi in one document. What can you do in this situation? Well, if it's necessary to mention both, use characters with different formatting! For example, add the classic lowercase π with a twice-drawn lowercase ℼ, bold italic 𝜋, sans-serif 𝞹, and other variations from the Unicode set.
The symbol “Double-Struck Small Pi” is included in the “Additional letterlike symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 4.1 in 2005.
| Unicode Name | Double-Struck Small Pi |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Additional letterlike symbols |
| Unicode Version | 4.1 (2005) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 213C |
| Simple case change | 213C |
| Math | + |
| Alphabetic | + |
| Lowercase | + |
| Cased | + |
| ID_Start | + |
| ID_Continue | + |
| XID_Start | + |
| XID_Continue | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Other_Math | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 84 BC | 226 132 188 | 14845116 | 11100010 10000100 10111100 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 3C | 33 60 | 8508 | 00100001 00111100 |
| UTF-16LE | 3C 21 | 60 33 | 15393 | 00111100 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 3C | 0 0 33 60 | 8508 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 00111100 |
| UTF-32LE | 3C 21 00 00 | 60 33 0 0 | 1008795648 | 00111100 00100001 00000000 00000000 |