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Glyph for U+2135
Source: Noto Sans

U+2135 Alef Symbol

U+2135 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2100 to U+214F Letterlike Symbols in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as first transfinite cardinal (countable).

The glyph is a compatibility version of the glyph Glyph for U+05D0 Hebrew Letter Alef. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+2135 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

In mathematics, particularly in set theory, the aleph numbers are a sequence of numbers used to represent the cardinality (or size) of infinite sets that can be well-ordered. They were introduced by the mathematician Georg Cantor and are named after the symbol he used to denote them, the Hebrew letter aleph (ℵ).

The cardinality of the natural numbers is ℵ0 (read aleph-nought, aleph-zero, or aleph-null), the next larger cardinality of a well-ordered set is aleph-one ℵ1, then ℵ2 and so on. Continuing in this manner, it is possible to define a cardinal number ℵα for every ordinal number α, as described below.

The concept and notation are due to Georg Cantor, who defined the notion of cardinality and realized that infinite sets can have different cardinalities.

The aleph numbers differ from the infinity (∞) commonly found in algebra and calculus, in that the alephs measure the sizes of sets, while infinity is commonly defined either as an extreme limit of the real number line (applied to a function or sequence that "diverges to infinity" or "increases without bound"), or as an extreme point of the extended real number line.

Representations

System Representation
8501
UTF-8 E2 84 B5
UTF-16 21 35
UTF-32 00 00 21 35
URL-Quoted %E2%84%B5
HTML hex reference ℵ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ℵ
HTML named entity ℵ
HTML named entity ℵ
alias first transfinite cardinal (countable)
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) A3 DC
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) A3 DC
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 36 C0 33
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 51 23 5C 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 4F 23 5C 1B 28 42
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) 82 7B
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) 82 7B
LATEX \aleph
Adobe Glyph List aleph

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) ALEF SYMBOL
Unicode 1 Name (na1) FIRST TRANSFINITE CARDINAL
Block (blk) Letterlike Symbols
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) compatibility
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+05D0 Hebrew Letter Alef
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+2135 Alef Symbol
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+2135 Alef Symbol
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+2135 Alef Symbol
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+2135 Alef Symbol
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+2135 Alef Symbol
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+2135 Alef Symbol
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+2135 Alef Symbol
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+2135 Alef Symbol
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+05D0 Hebrew Letter Alef
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+05D0 Hebrew Letter Alef
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+2135 Alef Symbol
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+2135 Alef Symbol
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U