The Unicode Standard encodes almost all standard characters used in mathematics.[1] Unicode Technical Report #25 provides comprehensive information about the character repertoire, their properties, and guidelines for implementation.[1] Mathematical operators and symbols are in multiple Unicode blocks. Some of these blocks are dedicated to, or primarily contain, mathematical characters while others are a mix of mathematical and non-mathematical characters. This article covers all Unicode characters with a derived property of "Math".[2][3]
The Mathematical Operators block (U+2200–U+22FF) contains characters for mathematical, logical, and set notation.
The Supplemental Mathematical Operators block (U+2A00–U+2AFF) contains various mathematical symbols, including N-ary operators, summations and integrals, intersections and unions, logical and relational operators, and subset/superset relations.
The Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block (U+1D400–U+1D7FF) contains Latin and Greek letters and decimal digits that enable mathematicians to denote different notions with different letter styles. The reserved code points (the "holes") in the alphabetic ranges up to U+1D551 duplicate characters in the Letterlike Symbols block. In order, these are ℎ / ℬ ℰ ℱ ℋ ℐ ℒ ℳ ℛ / ℯ ℊ ℴ / ℭ ℌ ℑ ℜ ℨ / ℂ ℍ ℕ ℙ ℚ ℝ ℤ.
The Letterlike Symbols block (U+2100–U+214F) includes variables. Most alphabetic math symbols are in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block shown above.
The math subset of this block is U+2102, U+2107, U+210A–U+2113, U+2115, U+2118–U+211D, U+2124, U+2128–U+2129, U+212C–U+212D, U+212F–U+2131, U+2133–U+2138, U+213C–U+2149, and U+214B.[4]
The Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A block (U+27C0–U+27EF) contains characters for mathematical, logical, and database notation.
The Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block (U+2980–U+29FF) contains miscellaneous mathematical symbols, including brackets, angles, and circle symbols.
The Miscellaneous Technical block (U+2300–U+23FF) includes braces and operators.
The math subset of this block is U+2308–U+230B, U+2320–U+2321, U+237C, U+239B–U+23B5, 23B7, U+23D0, and U+23DC–U+23E2.
The Geometric Shapes block (U+25A0–U+25FF) contains geometric shape symbols.
The math subset of this block is U+25A0–25A1, U+25AE–25B7, U+25BC–25C1, U+25C6–25C7, U+25CA–25CB, U+25CF–25D3, U+25E2, U+25E4, U+25E7–25EC, and U+25F8–25FF.
The Arrows block (U+2190–U+21FF) contains line, curve, and semicircle arrows and arrow-like operators.
The math subset of this block is U+2190–U+21A7, U+21A9–U+21AE, U+21B0–U+21B1, U+21B6–U+21B7, U+21BC–U+21DB, U+21DD, U+21E4–U+21E5, U+21F4–U+21FF.[5]
The Supplemental Arrows-A block (U+27F0–U+27FF) contains arrows and arrow-like operators.
The Supplemental Arrows-B block (U+2900–U+297F) contains arrows and arrow-like operators (arrow tails, crossing arrows, curved arrows, and harpoons).
The Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block (U+2B00–U+2BFF Arrows) contains arrows and geometric shapes with various fills.
The math subset of this block is U+2B30–U+2B44, U+2B47–U+2B4C.[6]
The Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols block contains arrows, dots, enclosures, and overlays for modifying symbol characters.
The math subset of this block is U+20D0–U+20DC, U+20E1, U+20E5–U+20E6, and U+20EB–U+20EF.
The Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols block (U+1EE00–U+1EEFF) contains characters used in Arabic mathematical expressions.
Mathematical characters also appear in other blocks. Below is a list of these characters as of Unicode version 16.0:
Note: non-marking character