What is the difference between Greek Small Letter Kappa and Latin Small Letter Kra?

Greek Small Letter Kappa is U+03BA in the Greek and Coptic block. Latin Small Letter Kra is U+0138 in the Latin Extended-A block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Kappa?

The HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Kappa (U+03BA) is κ.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Kra?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Kra (U+0138) is ĸ.

Are Greek Small Letter Kappa and Latin Small Letter Kra the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Small Letter Kappa is U+03BA (decimal 954) and Latin Small Letter Kra is U+0138 (decimal 312). They are separate codepoints.

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

Greek Small Letter Kappa (U+03BA) encodes as CE BA in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter Kra (U+0138) encodes as C4 B8 in UTF-8.

Greek Small Letter Kappa vs Latin Small Letter Kra

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 Kappa

U+03BA

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Latin Small Letter Kra

U+0138

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Small Letter Kappa	Latin Small Letter Kra
Codepoint	`U+03BA`	`U+0138`
Decimal	`954`	`312`
HTML Entity	`κ`	`ĸ`
HTML Decimal	`κ`	`ĸ`
HTML Hex	`κ`	`ĸ`
UTF-8	`CE BA`	`C4 B8`
UTF-16	`03 BA`	`01 38`
UTF-32	`000003BA`	`00000138`
CSS Escape	`\3BA`	`\138`
JS Escape	`\u03BA`	`\u0138`
Python Escape	`\u03BA`	`\u0138`
URL Encoded	`%CE%BA`	`%C4%B8`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Greek and Coptic`	`Latin Extended-A`
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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