What is the difference between Greek Small Letter Epsilon and Latin Small Letter C With Bar?

Greek Small Letter Epsilon is U+03B5 in the Greek and Coptic block. Latin Small Letter C With Bar is U+A793 in the Latin Extended-D block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Epsilon?

The HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Epsilon (U+03B5) is ε.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter C With Bar?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter C With Bar (U+A793) is ꞓ.

Are Greek Small Letter Epsilon and Latin Small Letter C With Bar the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Small Letter Epsilon is U+03B5 (decimal 949) and Latin Small Letter C With Bar is U+A793 (decimal 42899). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Small Letter Epsilon and Latin Small Letter C With Bar?

Greek Small Letter Epsilon (U+03B5) encodes as CE B5 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter C With Bar (U+A793) encodes as EA 9E 93 in UTF-8.

Greek Small Letter Epsilon vs Latin Small Letter C With Bar

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 Epsilon

U+03B5

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ꞓ

Latin Small Letter C With Bar

U+A793

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Small Letter Epsilon	Latin Small Letter C With Bar
Codepoint	`U+03B5`	`U+A793`
Decimal	`949`	`42899`
HTML Entity	`ε`	`ꞓ`
HTML Decimal	`ε`	`ꞓ`
HTML Hex	`ε`	`ꞓ`
UTF-8	`CE B5`	`EA 9E 93`
UTF-16	`03 B5`	`A7 93`
UTF-32	`000003B5`	`0000A793`
CSS Escape	`\3B5`	`\A793`
JS Escape	`\u03B5`	`\uA793`
Python Escape	`\u03B5`	`\uA793`
URL Encoded	`%CE%B5`	`%EA%9E%93`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Greek and Coptic`	`Latin Extended-D`
Script	`Greek`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`6.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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