What is the difference between Ethiopic Syllable Szaa and Latin Small Letter Turned M With Long Leg?

Ethiopic Syllable Szaa is U+1223 in the Ethiopic block. Latin Small Letter Turned M With Long Leg is U+0270 in the IPA Extensions block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Ethiopic Syllable Szaa?

The HTML entity for Ethiopic Syllable Szaa (U+1223) is ሣ.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Turned M With Long Leg?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Turned M With Long Leg (U+0270) is ɰ.

Are Ethiopic Syllable Szaa and Latin Small Letter Turned M With Long Leg the same Unicode character?

No. Ethiopic Syllable Szaa is U+1223 (decimal 4643) and Latin Small Letter Turned M With Long Leg is U+0270 (decimal 624). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Ethiopic Syllable Szaa and Latin Small Letter Turned M With Long Leg?

Ethiopic Syllable Szaa (U+1223) encodes as E1 88 A3 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter Turned M With Long Leg (U+0270) encodes as C9 B0 in UTF-8.

Ethiopic Syllable Szaa vs Latin Small Letter Turned M With Long Leg

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.

ሣ

Ethiopic Syllable Szaa

U+1223

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Latin Small Letter Turned M With Long Leg

U+0270

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Property Comparison

Property	Ethiopic Syllable Szaa	Latin Small Letter Turned M With Long Leg
Codepoint	`U+1223`	`U+0270`
Decimal	`4643`	`624`
HTML Entity	`ሣ`	`ɰ`
HTML Decimal	`ሣ`	`ɰ`
HTML Hex	`ሣ`	`ɰ`
UTF-8	`E1 88 A3`	`C9 B0`
UTF-16	`12 23`	`02 70`
UTF-32	`00001223`	`00000270`
CSS Escape	`\1223`	`\270`
JS Escape	`\u1223`	`\u0270`
Python Escape	`\u1223`	`\u0270`
URL Encoded	`%E1%88%A3`	`%C9%B0`
Category	`Other Letter (Lo)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Ethiopic`	`IPA Extensions`
Script	`Ethiopic`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.0`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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