What is the difference between Greek Capital Letter Sigma and Latin Capital Letter Esh?

Greek Capital Letter Sigma is U+03A3 in the Greek and Coptic block. Latin Capital Letter Esh is U+01A9 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 Sigma?

The HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Sigma (U+03A3) is Σ.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Esh?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Esh (U+01A9) is Ʃ.

Are Greek Capital Letter Sigma and Latin Capital Letter Esh the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Capital Letter Sigma is U+03A3 (decimal 931) and Latin Capital Letter Esh is U+01A9 (decimal 425). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Capital Letter Sigma and Latin Capital Letter Esh?

Greek Capital Letter Sigma (U+03A3) encodes as CE A3 in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter Esh (U+01A9) encodes as C6 A9 in UTF-8.

Greek Capital Letter Sigma vs Latin Capital Letter Esh

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 Sigma

U+03A3

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Latin Capital Letter Esh

U+01A9

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Capital Letter Sigma	Latin Capital Letter Esh
Codepoint	`U+03A3`	`U+01A9`
Decimal	`931`	`425`
HTML Entity	`Σ`	`Ʃ`
HTML Decimal	`Σ`	`Ʃ`
HTML Hex	`Σ`	`Ʃ`
UTF-8	`CE A3`	`C6 A9`
UTF-16	`03 A3`	`01 A9`
UTF-32	`000003A3`	`000001A9`
CSS Escape	`\3A3`	`\1A9`
JS Escape	`\u03A3`	`\u01A9`
Python Escape	`\u03A3`	`\u01A9`
URL Encoded	`%CE%A3`	`%C6%A9`
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`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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