What is the difference between Greek Pi Symbol and Greek Small Letter Pi?

Greek Pi Symbol is U+03D6 in the Greek and Coptic block. Greek Small Letter Pi is U+03C0 in the Greek and Coptic block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Pi Symbol?

The HTML entity for Greek Pi Symbol (U+03D6) is ϖ.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Pi?

The HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Pi (U+03C0) is π.

Are Greek Pi Symbol and Greek Small Letter Pi the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Pi Symbol is U+03D6 (decimal 982) and Greek Small Letter Pi is U+03C0 (decimal 960). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Pi Symbol and Greek Small Letter Pi?

Greek Pi Symbol (U+03D6) encodes as CF 96 in UTF-8. Greek Small Letter Pi (U+03C0) encodes as CF 80 in UTF-8.

Greek Pi Symbol vs Greek Small Letter Pi

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 Pi Symbol

U+03D6

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Greek Small Letter Pi

U+03C0

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Pi Symbol	Greek Small Letter Pi
Codepoint	`U+03D6`	`U+03C0`
Decimal	`982`	`960`
HTML Entity	`ϖ`	`π`
HTML Decimal	`ϖ`	`π`
HTML Hex	`ϖ`	`π`
UTF-8	`CF 96`	`CF 80`
UTF-16	`03 D6`	`03 C0`
UTF-32	`000003D6`	`000003C0`
CSS Escape	`\3D6`	`\3C0`
JS Escape	`\u03D6`	`\u03C0`
Python Escape	`\u03D6`	`\u03C0`
URL Encoded	`%CF%96`	`%CF%80`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Greek and Coptic`	`Greek and Coptic`
Script	`Greek`	`Greek`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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