What is the difference between Greek Lower Numeral Sign and Modifier Letter Low Acute Accent?

Greek Lower Numeral Sign is U+0375 in the Greek and Coptic block. Modifier Letter Low Acute Accent is U+02CF in the Spacing Modifier Letters block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Lower Numeral Sign?

The HTML entity for Greek Lower Numeral Sign (U+0375) is ͵.

What is the HTML entity for Modifier Letter Low Acute Accent?

The HTML entity for Modifier Letter Low Acute Accent (U+02CF) is ˏ.

Are Greek Lower Numeral Sign and Modifier Letter Low Acute Accent the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Lower Numeral Sign is U+0375 (decimal 885) and Modifier Letter Low Acute Accent is U+02CF (decimal 719). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Lower Numeral Sign and Modifier Letter Low Acute Accent?

Greek Lower Numeral Sign (U+0375) encodes as CD B5 in UTF-8. Modifier Letter Low Acute Accent (U+02CF) encodes as CB 8F in UTF-8.

Greek Lower Numeral Sign vs Modifier Letter Low Acute Accent

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 Lower Numeral Sign

U+0375

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Modifier Letter Low Acute Accent

U+02CF

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Lower Numeral Sign	Modifier Letter Low Acute Accent
Codepoint	`U+0375`	`U+02CF`
Decimal	`885`	`719`
HTML Entity	`͵`	`ˏ`
HTML Decimal	`͵`	`ˏ`
HTML Hex	`͵`	`ˏ`
UTF-8	`CD B5`	`CB 8F`
UTF-16	`03 75`	`02 CF`
UTF-32	`00000375`	`000002CF`
CSS Escape	`\375`	`\2CF`
JS Escape	`\u0375`	`\u02CF`
Python Escape	`\u0375`	`\u02CF`
URL Encoded	`%CD%B5`	`%CB%8F`
Category	`Modifier Symbol (Sk)`	`Modifier Letter (Lm)`
Block	`Greek and Coptic`	`Spacing Modifier Letters`
Script	`Greek`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

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