What is the difference between Latin Small Letter Ou and Digit Eight?

Latin Small Letter Ou is U+0223 in the Latin Extended-B block. Digit Eight is U+0038 in the Basic Latin block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Ou?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Ou (U+0223) is ȣ.

What is the HTML entity for Digit Eight?

The HTML entity for Digit Eight (U+0038) is 8.

Are Latin Small Letter Ou and Digit Eight the same Unicode character?

No. Latin Small Letter Ou is U+0223 (decimal 547) and Digit Eight is U+0038 (decimal 56). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Latin Small Letter Ou and Digit Eight?

Latin Small Letter Ou (U+0223) encodes as C8 A3 in UTF-8. Digit Eight (U+0038) encodes as 38 in UTF-8.

Latin Small Letter Ou vs Digit Eight

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.

Latin Small Letter Ou

U+0223

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Digit Eight

U+0038

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Property Comparison

Property	Latin Small Letter Ou	Digit Eight
Codepoint	`U+0223`	`U+0038`
Decimal	`547`	`56`
HTML Entity	`ȣ`	`8`
HTML Decimal	`ȣ`	`8`
HTML Hex	`ȣ`	`8`
UTF-8	`C8 A3`	`38`
UTF-16	`02 23`	`00 38`
UTF-32	`00000223`	`00000038`
CSS Escape	`\223`	`\38`
JS Escape	`\u0223`	`\u0038`
Python Escape	`\u0223`	`\u0038`
URL Encoded	`%C8%A3`	`8`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Decimal Number (Nd)`
Block	`Latin Extended-B`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Latin`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`L`	`EN`
Unicode Version	`3.0`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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