What is the difference between Ogonek and Latin Small Letter I?

Ogonek is U+02DB in the Spacing Modifier Letters block. Latin Small Letter I is U+0069 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 Ogonek?

The HTML entity for Ogonek (U+02DB) is ˛.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter I?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter I (U+0069) is i.

Are Ogonek and Latin Small Letter I the same Unicode character?

No. Ogonek is U+02DB (decimal 731) and Latin Small Letter I is U+0069 (decimal 105). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Ogonek and Latin Small Letter I?

Ogonek (U+02DB) encodes as CB 9B in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter I (U+0069) encodes as 69 in UTF-8.

Ogonek vs Latin Small Letter I

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.

Ogonek

U+02DB

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Latin Small Letter I

U+0069

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Property Comparison

Property	Ogonek	Latin Small Letter I
Codepoint	`U+02DB`	`U+0069`
Decimal	`731`	`105`
HTML Entity	`˛`	`i`
HTML Decimal	`˛`	`i`
HTML Hex	`˛`	`i`
UTF-8	`CB 9B`	`69`
UTF-16	`02 DB`	`00 69`
UTF-32	`000002DB`	`00000069`
CSS Escape	`\2DB`	`\69`
JS Escape	`\u02DB`	`\u0069`
Python Escape	`\u02DB`	`\u0069`
URL Encoded	`%CB%9B`	`i`
Category	`Modifier Symbol (Sk)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Spacing Modifier Letters`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Common`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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