What is the difference between Greek Small Letter Stigma and Greek Small Letter Final Sigma?

Greek Small Letter Stigma is U+03DB in the Greek and Coptic block. Greek Small Letter Final Sigma is U+03C2 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 Small Letter Stigma?

The HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Stigma (U+03DB) is ϛ.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Final Sigma?

The HTML entity for Greek Small Letter Final Sigma (U+03C2) is &sigmaf;.

Are Greek Small Letter Stigma and Greek Small Letter Final Sigma the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Small Letter Stigma is U+03DB (decimal 987) and Greek Small Letter Final Sigma is U+03C2 (decimal 962). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Small Letter Stigma and Greek Small Letter Final Sigma?

Greek Small Letter Stigma (U+03DB) encodes as CF 9B in UTF-8. Greek Small Letter Final Sigma (U+03C2) encodes as CF 82 in UTF-8.

Greek Small Letter Stigma vs Greek Small Letter Final Sigma

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 Stigma

U+03DB

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Greek Small Letter Final Sigma

U+03C2

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Small Letter Stigma	Greek Small Letter Final Sigma
Codepoint	`U+03DB`	`U+03C2`
Decimal	`987`	`962`
HTML Entity	`ϛ`	`&sigmaf;`
HTML Decimal	`ϛ`	`ς`
HTML Hex	`ϛ`	`ς`
UTF-8	`CF 9B`	`CF 82`
UTF-16	`03 DB`	`03 C2`
UTF-32	`000003DB`	`000003C2`
CSS Escape	`\3DB`	`\3C2`
JS Escape	`\u03DB`	`\u03C2`
Python Escape	`\u03DB`	`\u03C2`
URL Encoded	`%CF%9B`	`%CF%82`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Greek and Coptic`	`Greek and Coptic`
Script	`Greek`	`Greek`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.0`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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