What is the difference between Greek Capital Letter Heta and Latin Capital Letter Half H?

Greek Capital Letter Heta is U+0370 in the Greek and Coptic block. Latin Capital Letter Half H is U+2C75 in the Latin Extended-C block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Heta?

The HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Heta (U+0370) is Ͱ.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Half H?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Half H (U+2C75) is Ⱶ.

Are Greek Capital Letter Heta and Latin Capital Letter Half H the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Capital Letter Heta is U+0370 (decimal 880) and Latin Capital Letter Half H is U+2C75 (decimal 11381). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Capital Letter Heta and Latin Capital Letter Half H?

Greek Capital Letter Heta (U+0370) encodes as CD B0 in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter Half H (U+2C75) encodes as E2 B1 B5 in UTF-8.

Greek Capital Letter Heta vs Latin Capital Letter Half H

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.

Greek Capital Letter Heta

U+0370

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Ⱶ

Latin Capital Letter Half H

U+2C75

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Capital Letter Heta	Latin Capital Letter Half H
Codepoint	`U+0370`	`U+2C75`
Decimal	`880`	`11381`
HTML Entity	`Ͱ`	`Ⱶ`
HTML Decimal	`Ͱ`	`Ⱶ`
HTML Hex	`Ͱ`	`Ⱶ`
UTF-8	`CD B0`	`E2 B1 B5`
UTF-16	`03 70`	`2C 75`
UTF-32	`00000370`	`00002C75`
CSS Escape	`\370`	`\2C75`
JS Escape	`\u0370`	`\u2C75`
Python Escape	`\u0370`	`\u2C75`
URL Encoded	`%CD%B0`	`%E2%B1%B5`
Category	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Greek and Coptic`	`Latin Extended-C`
Script	`Greek`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`5.1`	`5.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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