Black-Letter Capital I HTML entity &image;

&image; is the HTML entity for Black-Letter Capital I ℑ (U+2111). Copy ℑ, ℑ and the CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.

Entity: &image;
Also written: &Ifr; &Im; &imagpart;
Code point: U+2111
Unicode name: BLACK-LETTER CAPITAL I
Block: Letterlike Symbols
Category: Uppercase letter (Lu)
Since: Unicode 1.1
Defined in: HTML 4.01 and HTML5

Codes to copy

HTML named	`&image;`Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined.
HTML decimal	`ℑ`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`ℑ`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\2111";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\u2111"`Also valid in JSON.
Python	`"\u2111"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{BLACK-LETTER CAPITAL I}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%E2%84%91`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 84 91`3 bytes.
UTF-16	`2111`1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

&image; writes U+2111 (Black-Letter Capital I), a capital letter from the Unicode Letterlike Symbols block, encoded since Unicode 1.1. These characters exist mostly for compatibility with older character sets; for anything beyond simple cases, <sup>, <sub> or MathML give more control.

The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.

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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).