What is the difference between Micro Sign and Greek Small Letter Mu?

Micro Sign is U+00B5 in the Latin-1 Supplement block. Greek Small Letter Mu is U+03BC in the Greek and Coptic block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Micro Sign?

The HTML entity for Micro Sign (U+00B5) is µ.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Mu?

The HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Mu (U+03BC) is μ.

Are Micro Sign and Greek Small Letter Mu the same Unicode character?

No. Micro Sign is U+00B5 (decimal 181) and Greek Small Letter Mu is U+03BC (decimal 956). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Micro Sign and Greek Small Letter Mu?

Micro Sign (U+00B5) encodes as C2 B5 in UTF-8. Greek Small Letter Mu (U+03BC) encodes as CE BC in UTF-8.

Micro Sign vs Greek Small Letter Mu

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

Micro Sign

U+00B5

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Greek Small Letter Mu

U+03BC

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Property Comparison

Property	Micro Sign	Greek Small Letter Mu
Codepoint	`U+00B5`	`U+03BC`
Decimal	`181`	`956`
HTML Entity	`µ`	`μ`
HTML Decimal	`µ`	`μ`
HTML Hex	`µ`	`μ`
UTF-8	`C2 B5`	`CE BC`
UTF-16	`00 B5`	`03 BC`
UTF-32	`000000B5`	`000003BC`
CSS Escape	`\B5`	`\3BC`
JS Escape	`\u00B5`	`\u03BC`
Python Escape	`\u00B5`	`\u03BC`
URL Encoded	`%C2%B5`	`%CE%BC`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Latin-1 Supplement`	`Greek and Coptic`
Script	`Common`	`Greek`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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