What is the difference between Greek Small Letter Tau and Latin Letter Small Capital T?

Greek Small Letter Tau is U+03C4 in the Greek and Coptic block. Latin Letter Small Capital T is U+1D1B in the Phonetic Extensions block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Tau?

The HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Tau (U+03C4) is τ.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Letter Small Capital T?

The HTML entity for Latin Letter Small Capital T (U+1D1B) is ᴛ.

Are Greek Small Letter Tau and Latin Letter Small Capital T the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Small Letter Tau is U+03C4 (decimal 964) and Latin Letter Small Capital T is U+1D1B (decimal 7451). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Small Letter Tau and Latin Letter Small Capital T?

Greek Small Letter Tau (U+03C4) encodes as CF 84 in UTF-8. Latin Letter Small Capital T (U+1D1B) encodes as E1 B4 9B in UTF-8.

Greek Small Letter Tau vs Latin Letter Small Capital T

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 Tau

U+03C4

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ᴛ

Latin Letter Small Capital T

U+1D1B

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Small Letter Tau	Latin Letter Small Capital T
Codepoint	`U+03C4`	`U+1D1B`
Decimal	`964`	`7451`
HTML Entity	`τ`	`ᴛ`
HTML Decimal	`τ`	`ᴛ`
HTML Hex	`τ`	`ᴛ`
UTF-8	`CF 84`	`E1 B4 9B`
UTF-16	`03 C4`	`1D 1B`
UTF-32	`000003C4`	`00001D1B`
CSS Escape	`\3C4`	`\1D1B`
JS Escape	`\u03C4`	`\u1D1B`
Python Escape	`\u03C4`	`\u1D1B`
URL Encoded	`%CF%84`	`%E1%B4%9B`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Greek and Coptic`	`Phonetic Extensions`
Script	`Greek`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`4.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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