What is the difference between Greek Small Letter Delta and Latin Small Letter Delta?

Greek Small Letter Delta is U+03B4 in the Greek and Coptic block. Latin Small Letter Delta is U+1E9F in the Latin Extended Additional block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Delta?

The HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Delta (U+03B4) is δ.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Delta?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Delta (U+1E9F) is ẟ.

Are Greek Small Letter Delta and Latin Small Letter Delta the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Small Letter Delta is U+03B4 (decimal 948) and Latin Small Letter Delta is U+1E9F (decimal 7839). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Small Letter Delta and Latin Small Letter Delta?

Greek Small Letter Delta (U+03B4) encodes as CE B4 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter Delta (U+1E9F) encodes as E1 BA 9F in UTF-8.

Greek Small Letter Delta vs Latin Small Letter Delta

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 Letter Delta

U+03B4

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ẟ

Latin Small Letter Delta

U+1E9F

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Small Letter Delta	Latin Small Letter Delta
Codepoint	`U+03B4`	`U+1E9F`
Decimal	`948`	`7839`
HTML Entity	`δ`	`ẟ`
HTML Decimal	`δ`	`ẟ`
HTML Hex	`δ`	`ẟ`
UTF-8	`CE B4`	`E1 BA 9F`
UTF-16	`03 B4`	`1E 9F`
UTF-32	`000003B4`	`00001E9F`
CSS Escape	`\3B4`	`\1E9F`
JS Escape	`\u03B4`	`\u1E9F`
Python Escape	`\u03B4`	`\u1E9F`
URL Encoded	`%CE%B4`	`%E1%BA%9F`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Greek and Coptic`	`Latin Extended Additional`
Script	`Greek`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`5.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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