Mathematical Italic Small Sigma

Group: Mathematical alphanumerics

Keywords

math-alphanumeric

About this character

Mathematical Italic Small Sigma belongs to the Mathematical alphanumerics group and is encoded at U+1D70E. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1D70E
Hex: 1D70E
Decimal: 120590
HTML: 𝜎
CSS: \1D70E
JavaScript: \u{1D70E}
Python: \U0001D70E
UTF-8: F0 9D 9C 8E

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.