U+2137 Gimel Symbol
U+2137 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Letterlike Symbols in the 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 third transfinite cardinal (functions of a real variable).
The glyph is a Compat composition of the glyph Hebrew Letter Gimel. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2137 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Alphabetic Letter for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In axiomatic set theory, the gimel function is the following function mapping cardinal numbers to cardinal numbers:
- ℷ : κ ↦ κ c f ( κ ) {displaystyle gimel colon kappa mapsto kappa ^{mathrm {cf} (kappa )}}
where cf denotes the cofinality function; the gimel function is used for studying the continuum function and the cardinal exponentiation function. The symbol ℷ {displaystyle gimel } is a serif form of the Hebrew letter gimel.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8503 |
| UTF-8 | E2 84 B7 |
| UTF-16 | 21 37 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 21 37 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%84%B7 |
| HTML-Escape | ℷ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â· |
| HTML-Escape | ℷ |
| alias | third transfinite cardinal (functions of a real variable) |
| LATEX | \gimel |
Related Characters
Confusables
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| GIMEL SYMBOL | |
| THIRD TRANSFINITE CARDINAL | |
| Letterlike Symbols | |
| Other Letter | |
| Common | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| Compat | |
| Hebrew Letter Gimel | |
| ✘ | |
| Gimel Symbol | |
| Gimel Symbol | |
| ✘ | |
| Gimel Symbol | |
| Gimel Symbol | |
| Gimel Symbol | |
| Gimel Symbol | |
| Gimel Symbol | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Gimel Symbol | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Hebrew Letter Gimel | |
| No | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Gimel Symbol | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Gimel Symbol | |
| U |