What is the difference between Canadian Syllabics Mi and Greek Capital Letter Gamma?

Canadian Syllabics Mi is U+14A5 in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block. Greek Capital Letter Gamma is U+0393 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 Canadian Syllabics Mi?

The HTML entity for Canadian Syllabics Mi (U+14A5) is ᒥ.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Gamma?

The HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Gamma (U+0393) is Γ.

Are Canadian Syllabics Mi and Greek Capital Letter Gamma the same Unicode character?

No. Canadian Syllabics Mi is U+14A5 (decimal 5285) and Greek Capital Letter Gamma is U+0393 (decimal 915). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Canadian Syllabics Mi and Greek Capital Letter Gamma?

Canadian Syllabics Mi (U+14A5) encodes as E1 92 A5 in UTF-8. Greek Capital Letter Gamma (U+0393) encodes as CE 93 in UTF-8.

Canadian Syllabics Mi vs Greek Capital Letter Gamma

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.

ᒥ

Canadian Syllabics Mi

U+14A5

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Greek Capital Letter Gamma

U+0393

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Property Comparison

Property	Canadian Syllabics Mi	Greek Capital Letter Gamma
Codepoint	`U+14A5`	`U+0393`
Decimal	`5285`	`915`
HTML Entity	`ᒥ`	`Γ`
HTML Decimal	`ᒥ`	`Γ`
HTML Hex	`ᒥ`	`Γ`
UTF-8	`E1 92 A5`	`CE 93`
UTF-16	`14 A5`	`03 93`
UTF-32	`000014A5`	`00000393`
CSS Escape	`\14A5`	`\393`
JS Escape	`\u14A5`	`\u0393`
Python Escape	`\u14A5`	`\u0393`
URL Encoded	`%E1%92%A5`	`%CE%93`
Category	`Other Letter (Lo)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics`	`Greek and Coptic`
Script	`Canadian Aboriginal`	`Greek`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.0`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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