What is the difference between Greek Capital Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol and Latin Capital Letter Open O?

Greek Capital Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol is U+03FD in the Greek and Coptic block. Latin Capital Letter Open O is U+0186 in the Latin Extended-B block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Capital Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol?

The HTML entity for Greek Capital Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol (U+03FD) is Ͻ.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Open O?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Open O (U+0186) is Ɔ.

Are Greek Capital Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol and Latin Capital Letter Open O the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Capital Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol is U+03FD (decimal 1021) and Latin Capital Letter Open O is U+0186 (decimal 390). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Capital Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol and Latin Capital Letter Open O?

Greek Capital Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol (U+03FD) encodes as CF BD in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter Open O (U+0186) encodes as C6 86 in UTF-8.

Greek Capital Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol vs Latin Capital Letter Open O

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 Capital Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol

U+03FD

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Latin Capital Letter Open O

U+0186

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Capital Reversed Lunate Sigma Symbol	Latin Capital Letter Open O
Codepoint	`U+03FD`	`U+0186`
Decimal	`1021`	`390`
HTML Entity	`Ͻ`	`Ɔ`
HTML Decimal	`Ͻ`	`Ɔ`
HTML Hex	`Ͻ`	`Ɔ`
UTF-8	`CF BD`	`C6 86`
UTF-16	`03 FD`	`01 86`
UTF-32	`000003FD`	`00000186`
CSS Escape	`\3FD`	`\186`
JS Escape	`\u03FD`	`\u0186`
Python Escape	`\u03FD`	`\u0186`
URL Encoded	`%CF%BD`	`%C6%86`
Category	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Greek and Coptic`	`Latin Extended-B`
Script	`Greek`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`4.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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