U+2137 GIMEL SYMBOL
U+2137 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block 
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 glyphs 
. 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 3 other glyphs. In text U+2137 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has
type OLetter for sentence and ALetter 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:
where cf denotes the cofinality function; the gimel function is used for studying the continuum function and the cardinal exponentiation function. The symbol 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 |
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Age (age) | 1.1 |
| Unicode Name (na) | GIMEL SYMBOL |
| Unicode 1 Name (na1) | THIRD 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) | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping (dm) |
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| Lowercase (Lower) | ✘ |
| Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) |
 |
| Lowercase Mapping (lc) |
|
| Uppercase (Upper) | ✘ |
| Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) |
|
| Uppercase Mapping (uc) |
|
| Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) |
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| Titlecase Mapping (tc) |
|
| Case Folding (cf) |
|
| ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) | ✘ |
| Alphabetic (Alpha) | ✔ |
| Bidi Control (Bidi_C) | ✘ |
| Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) | ✘ |
| Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) |
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| Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) | None |
| Cased (Cased) | ✘ |
| Composition Exclusion (CE) | ✘ |
| Case Ignorable (CI) | ✘ |
| Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) | ✘ |
| 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) | ✘ |
| Dash (Dash) | ✘ |
| Deprecated (Dep) | ✘ |
| Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) | ✘ |
| Diacritic (Dia) | ✘ |
| East Asian Width (ea) | Neutral |
| Extender (Ext) | ✘ |
| FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) |
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| Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) | Any |
| Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) | ✔ |
| Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) | ✘ |
| Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) | ✘ |
| Hex Digit (Hex) | ✘ |
| Hangul Syllable Type (hst) | Not Applicable |
| Hyphen (Hyphen) | ✘ |
| ID Continue (IDC) | ✔ |
| Ideographic (Ideo) | ✘ |
| ID Start (IDS) | ✔ |
| IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) | ✘ |
| IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) | ✘ |
| InMC (InMC) | — |
| Indic Positional Category (InPC) | NA |
| Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) | Other |
| ISO 10646 Comment (isc) | — |
| Joining Group (jg) | No_Joining_Group |
| Join Control (Join_C) | ✘ |
| Jamo Short Name (JSN) | — |
| Joining Type (jt) | Non Joining |
| Line Break (lb) | Alphabetic |
| Logical Order Exception (LOE) | ✘ |
| Math (Math) | ✔ |
| Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) | ✘ |
| NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) |
|
| NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) | No |
| NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) | No |
| Numeric Type (nt) | None |
| Numeric Value (nv) | NaN |
| 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) | ✘ |
| Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) | ✘ |
| Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) | ✘ |
| Quotation Mark (QMark) | ✘ |
| Radical (Radical) | ✘ |
| Sentence Break (SB) | OLetter |
| Simple Case Folding (scf) |
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| Script Extension (scx) | Common |
| Soft Dotted (SD) | ✘ |
| STerm (STerm) | ✘ |
| Terminal Punctuation (Term) | ✘ |
| Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) | ✘ |
| Variation Selector (VS) | ✘ |
| Word Break (WB) | ALetter |
| 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) | ✘ |