What is the difference between Malayalam Sign Anusvara and Latin Small Letter O?

Malayalam Sign Anusvara is U+0D02 in the Malayalam block. Latin Small Letter O is U+006F in the Basic Latin block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Malayalam Sign Anusvara?

The HTML entity for Malayalam Sign Anusvara (U+0D02) is ം.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter O?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter O (U+006F) is o.

Are Malayalam Sign Anusvara and Latin Small Letter O the same Unicode character?

No. Malayalam Sign Anusvara is U+0D02 (decimal 3330) and Latin Small Letter O is U+006F (decimal 111). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Malayalam Sign Anusvara and Latin Small Letter O?

Malayalam Sign Anusvara (U+0D02) encodes as E0 B4 82 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter O (U+006F) encodes as 6F in UTF-8.

Malayalam Sign Anusvara vs Latin Small Letter 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.

ം

Malayalam Sign Anusvara

U+0D02

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Latin Small Letter O

U+006F

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Property Comparison

Property	Malayalam Sign Anusvara	Latin Small Letter O
Codepoint	`U+0D02`	`U+006F`
Decimal	`3330`	`111`
HTML Entity	`ം`	`o`
HTML Decimal	`ം`	`o`
HTML Hex	`ം`	`o`
UTF-8	`E0 B4 82`	`6F`
UTF-16	`0D 02`	`00 6F`
UTF-32	`00000D02`	`0000006F`
CSS Escape	`\D02`	`\6F`
JS Escape	`\u0D02`	`\u006F`
Python Escape	`\u0D02`	`\u006F`
URL Encoded	`%E0%B4%82`	`o`
Category	`Spacing Mark (Mc)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Malayalam`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Malayalam`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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