What is the difference between Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol and Latin Small Letter Open O?

Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol is U+037B in the Greek and Coptic block. Latin Small Letter Open O is U+0254 in the IPA Extensions block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol?

The HTML entity for Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol (U+037B) is ͻ.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Open O?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Open O (U+0254) is ɔ.

Are Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol and Latin Small Letter Open O the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol is U+037B (decimal 891) and Latin Small Letter Open O is U+0254 (decimal 596). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol and Latin Small Letter Open O?

Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol (U+037B) encodes as CD BB in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter Open O (U+0254) encodes as C9 94 in UTF-8.

Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol vs Latin Small Letter Open O

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 Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol

U+037B

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Latin Small Letter Open O

U+0254

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Small Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol	Latin Small Letter Open O
Codepoint	`U+037B`	`U+0254`
Decimal	`891`	`596`
HTML Entity	`ͻ`	`ɔ`
HTML Decimal	`ͻ`	`ɔ`
HTML Hex	`ͻ`	`ɔ`
UTF-8	`CD BB`	`C9 94`
UTF-16	`03 7B`	`02 54`
UTF-32	`0000037B`	`00000254`
CSS Escape	`\37B`	`\254`
JS Escape	`\u037B`	`\u0254`
Python Escape	`\u037B`	`\u0254`
URL Encoded	`%CD%BB`	`%C9%94`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Greek and Coptic`	`IPA Extensions`
Script	`Greek`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`5.0`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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