What is the difference between Greek Capital Letter Lamda and Latin Capital Letter Turned V?

Greek Capital Letter Lamda is U+039B in the Greek and Coptic block. Latin Capital Letter Turned V is U+0245 in the Latin Extended-B block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Lamda?

The HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Lamda (U+039B) is Λ.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Turned V?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Turned V (U+0245) is Ʌ.

Are Greek Capital Letter Lamda and Latin Capital Letter Turned V the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Capital Letter Lamda is U+039B (decimal 923) and Latin Capital Letter Turned V is U+0245 (decimal 581). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Capital Letter Lamda and Latin Capital Letter Turned V?

Greek Capital Letter Lamda (U+039B) encodes as CE 9B in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter Turned V (U+0245) encodes as C9 85 in UTF-8.

Greek Capital Letter Lamda vs Latin Capital Letter Turned V

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 Lamda

U+039B

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Latin Capital Letter Turned V

U+0245

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Capital Letter Lamda	Latin Capital Letter Turned V
Codepoint	`U+039B`	`U+0245`
Decimal	`923`	`581`
HTML Entity	`Λ`	`Ʌ`
HTML Decimal	`Λ`	`Ʌ`
HTML Hex	`Λ`	`Ʌ`
UTF-8	`CE 9B`	`C9 85`
UTF-16	`03 9B`	`02 45`
UTF-32	`0000039B`	`00000245`
CSS Escape	`\39B`	`\245`
JS Escape	`\u039B`	`\u0245`
Python Escape	`\u039B`	`\u0245`
URL Encoded	`%CE%9B`	`%C9%85`
Category	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Greek and Coptic`	`Latin Extended-B`
Script	`Greek`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`5.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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