U+2148 Double-Struck Italic Small I
U+2148 was added in Unicode version 3.2 in 2002. It belongs to the block
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is a font version of the glyph
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The imaginary unit or unit imaginary number (i) is a solution to the quadratic equation x2 + 1 = 0. Although there is no real number with this property, i can be used to extend the real numbers to what are called complex numbers, using addition and multiplication. A simple example of the use of i in a complex number is 2 + 3i.
Imaginary numbers are an important mathematical concept; they extend the real number system to the complex number system in which at least one root for every nonconstant polynomial exists (see Algebraic closure and Fundamental theorem of algebra). Here, the term "imaginary" is used because there is no real number having a negative square.
There are two complex square roots of −1: i and −i, just as there are two complex square roots of every real number other than zero (which has one double square root).
In contexts in which use of the letter i is ambiguous or problematic, the letter j is sometimes used instead. For example, in electrical engineering and control systems engineering, the imaginary unit is normally denoted by j instead of i, because i is commonly used to denote electric current.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 8520 |
UTF-8 | E2 85 88 |
UTF-16 | 21 48 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 21 48 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%85%88 |
HTML hex reference | ⅈ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â…ˆ |
HTML named entity | ⅈ |
HTML named entity | ⅈ |
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Complete Record
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DOUBLE-STRUCK ITALIC SMALL I | |
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