What 𝒗 means
Its style marks a distinct math symbol. Formulas use letter styles to distinguish symbols; some notation uses bold for vectors, but this glyph alone does not settle the meaning.
Mathematics used letter styles to distinguish symbols before this full alphabet was encoded. A 1998 proposal called for more variants for electronic math and science, extending older letterlike symbols. Reusing the forms as plain-text styling is a side effect.
Part of collections
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Can NFKC turn 𝒗 into plain v?
Yes. NFKC text normalization changes 𝒗 to plain v, dropping its math-style distinction; use it only when the forms should count alike.
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How to type or find 𝒗
- Search it as
- bold italic v · fancy v · math v · unicode v
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
𝒗CSS
\1D497Word for Windows
As of 2026, type 1D497, then press AltX.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𝒗
HTML hex
𝒗
CSS content
content: "\1D497";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9D%92%97
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.