Double-Struck Italic Small I ⅈ
Symbol Meaning
The modern Latin letter “i” comes from the Greek iota and the Phoenician symbol “yod.” It is used in many languages to represent vowel sounds similar to ] depending on its position in a word.
Lowercase “i” is used to denote the imaginary unit in mathematics and as an index variable in programming. It is also popular in the marketing field, since this symbol has been established as a prefix for product names of the Apple brand.
A double-struck italic lowercase letter i would be suitable for writing formulas. It can help decorate your username, headline, or post on social media. Use it together with other double-struck letters: ⅇ, ⅆ, ⅉ.
The symbol “Double-Struck Italic Small I” is included in the “Double-struck italic math symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 3.2 in 2002.
| Unicode Name | Double-Struck Italic Small I |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | ⅈ |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Double-struck italic math symbols |
| Unicode Version | 3.2 (2002) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2148 |
| Simple case change | 2148 |
| Math | + |
| Alphabetic | + |
| Lowercase | + |
| Cased | + |
| ID_Start | + |
| ID_Continue | + |
| XID_Start | + |
| XID_Continue | + |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Other_Math | + |
| Soft_Dotted | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 85 88 | 226 133 136 | 14845320 | 11100010 10000101 10001000 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 48 | 33 72 | 8520 | 00100001 01001000 |
| UTF-16LE | 48 21 | 72 33 | 18465 | 01001000 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 48 | 0 0 33 72 | 8520 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 01001000 |
| UTF-32LE | 48 21 00 00 | 72 33 0 0 | 1210122240 | 01001000 00100001 00000000 00000000 |