What is the difference between Greek Capital Letter Zeta and Latin Capital Letter Z?

Greek Capital Letter Zeta is U+0396 in the Greek and Coptic block. Latin Capital Letter Z is U+005A 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 Greek Capital Letter Zeta?

The HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Zeta (U+0396) is Ζ.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Z?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Z (U+005A) is Z.

Are Greek Capital Letter Zeta and Latin Capital Letter Z the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Capital Letter Zeta is U+0396 (decimal 918) and Latin Capital Letter Z is U+005A (decimal 90). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Capital Letter Zeta and Latin Capital Letter Z?

Greek Capital Letter Zeta (U+0396) encodes as CE 96 in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter Z (U+005A) encodes as 5A in UTF-8.

Greek Capital Letter Zeta vs Latin Capital Letter Z

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 Zeta

U+0396

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Latin Capital Letter Z

U+005A

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Capital Letter Zeta	Latin Capital Letter Z
Codepoint	`U+0396`	`U+005A`
Decimal	`918`	`90`
HTML Entity	`Ζ`	`Z`
HTML Decimal	`Ζ`	`Z`
HTML Hex	`Ζ`	`Z`
UTF-8	`CE 96`	`5A`
UTF-16	`03 96`	`00 5A`
UTF-32	`00000396`	`0000005A`
CSS Escape	`\396`	`\5A`
JS Escape	`\u0396`	`\u005A`
Python Escape	`\u0396`	`\u005A`
URL Encoded	`%CE%96`	`Z`
Category	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Greek and Coptic`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Greek`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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