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Glyph for U+2139
Source: Noto Emoji

U+2139 Information Source

U+2139 was added in Unicode version 3.0 in 1999. 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 Lowercase Letter and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is a font version of the glyph Glyph for U+0069 Latin Small Letter I. 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+2139 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The CLDR project calls this character “information” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: I.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Glyph for U+FE0F Variation Selector-16: ℹ️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

A source text is a text (sometimes oral) from which information or ideas are derived. In translation, a source text is the original text that is to be translated into another language.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 8505
UTF-8 E2 84 B9
UTF-16 21 39
UTF-32 00 00 21 39
URL-Quoted %E2%84%B9
HTML hex reference ℹ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ℹ
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 36 C0 37

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 3.0 (1999)
Unicode Name (na) INFORMATION SOURCE
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Letterlike Symbols
General Category (gc) Lowercase Letter
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) font
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+0069 Latin Small Letter I
Lowercase (Lower) ✔
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+2139 Information Source
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+2139 Information Source
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+2139 Information Source
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+2139 Information Source
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+2139 Information Source
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+2139 Information Source
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+2139 Information Source
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+2139 Information Source
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+0069 Latin Small Letter I
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+0069 Latin Small Letter I
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) Lower
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+2139 Information Source
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+2139 Information Source
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U