What is the difference between Lycian Letter L and Latin Capital Letter Turned V?

Lycian Letter L is U+1028D in the Lycian block. Latin Capital Letter Turned V is U+0245 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 Lycian Letter L?

The HTML entity for Lycian Letter L (U+1028D) is 𐊍.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Turned V?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter Turned V (U+0245) is Ʌ.

Are Lycian Letter L and Latin Capital Letter Turned V the same Unicode character?

No. Lycian Letter L is U+1028D (decimal 66189) and Latin Capital Letter Turned V is U+0245 (decimal 581). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Lycian Letter L and Latin Capital Letter Turned V?

Lycian Letter L (U+1028D) encodes as F0 90 8A 8D in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter Turned V (U+0245) encodes as C9 85 in UTF-8.

Lycian Letter L vs Latin Capital Letter Turned V

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.

𐊍

Lycian Letter L

U+1028D

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Latin Capital Letter Turned V

U+0245

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Property Comparison

Property	Lycian Letter L	Latin Capital Letter Turned V
Codepoint	`U+1028D`	`U+0245`
Decimal	`66189`	`581`
HTML Entity	`𐊍`	`Ʌ`
HTML Decimal	`𐊍`	`Ʌ`
HTML Hex	`𐊍`	`Ʌ`
UTF-8	`F0 90 8A 8D`	`C9 85`
UTF-16	`D8 00 DE 8D`	`02 45`
UTF-32	`0001028D`	`00000245`
CSS Escape	`\1028D`	`\245`
JS Escape	`\uD800\uDE8D`	`\u0245`
Python Escape	`\U0001028D`	`\u0245`
URL Encoded	`%F0%90%8A%8D`	`%C9%85`
Category	`Other Letter (Lo)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Lycian`	`Latin Extended-B`
Script	`Lycian`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`5.1`	`5.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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