What is the difference between Modifier Letter Left Half Ring and Armenian Modifier Letter Left Half Ring?

Modifier Letter Left Half Ring is U+02BF in the Spacing Modifier Letters block. Armenian Modifier Letter Left Half Ring is U+0559 in the Armenian block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Modifier Letter Left Half Ring?

The HTML entity for Modifier Letter Left Half Ring (U+02BF) is ʿ.

What is the HTML entity for Armenian Modifier Letter Left Half Ring?

The HTML entity for Armenian Modifier Letter Left Half Ring (U+0559) is ՙ.

Are Modifier Letter Left Half Ring and Armenian Modifier Letter Left Half Ring the same Unicode character?

No. Modifier Letter Left Half Ring is U+02BF (decimal 703) and Armenian Modifier Letter Left Half Ring is U+0559 (decimal 1369). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Modifier Letter Left Half Ring and Armenian Modifier Letter Left Half Ring?

Modifier Letter Left Half Ring (U+02BF) encodes as CA BF in UTF-8. Armenian Modifier Letter Left Half Ring (U+0559) encodes as D5 99 in UTF-8.

Modifier Letter Left Half Ring vs Armenian Modifier Letter Left Half Ring

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.

Modifier Letter Left Half Ring

U+02BF

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Armenian Modifier Letter Left Half Ring

U+0559

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Property Comparison

Property	Modifier Letter Left Half Ring	Armenian Modifier Letter Left Half Ring
Codepoint	`U+02BF`	`U+0559`
Decimal	`703`	`1369`
HTML Entity	`ʿ`	`ՙ`
HTML Decimal	`ʿ`	`ՙ`
HTML Hex	`ʿ`	`ՙ`
UTF-8	`CA BF`	`D5 99`
UTF-16	`02 BF`	`05 59`
UTF-32	`000002BF`	`00000559`
CSS Escape	`\2BF`	`\559`
JS Escape	`\u02BF`	`\u0559`
Python Escape	`\u02BF`	`\u0559`
URL Encoded	`%CA%BF`	`%D5%99`
Category	`Modifier Letter (Lm)`	`Modifier Letter (Lm)`
Block	`Spacing Modifier Letters`	`Armenian`
Script	`Common`	`Armenian`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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