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Unicode Character β€œπ•β€ (U+1D54F)

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Re: Unicode Character β€œπ•β€ (U+1D54F)

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This is for math.

In Latex, you get these symbols with \mathbb{}. They are most commonly used to represent to represent number sets, like the set of all integers Z (from the German), set of all natural numbers N, set of complex numbers C, set of all real numbers R, rationals Q (for β€œquotient”), set of quaternions H (named after Hamilton), or an unknown set F (for β€œfield”). This explains why many of the letters in this series exist in the basic multilingual planeβ€”because R is very commonly used, but A is not. You can find ℝ in the basic multilingual plane at U+211D.

I don’t know why people are interested in the X symbol. It’s just there to complete the alphabet. There are many other ranges like this used for writing mathematical formulas, like the range of bold letters, fraktur, script, etc.

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