What is the difference between Canadian Syllabics Carrier Lho and Greek Capital Letter Omega?

Canadian Syllabics Carrier Lho is U+162F in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block. Greek Capital Letter Omega is U+03A9 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 Carrier Lho?

The HTML entity for Canadian Syllabics Carrier Lho (U+162F) is ᘯ.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Omega?

The HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Omega (U+03A9) is Ω.

Are Canadian Syllabics Carrier Lho and Greek Capital Letter Omega the same Unicode character?

No. Canadian Syllabics Carrier Lho is U+162F (decimal 5679) and Greek Capital Letter Omega is U+03A9 (decimal 937). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Canadian Syllabics Carrier Lho and Greek Capital Letter Omega?

Canadian Syllabics Carrier Lho (U+162F) encodes as E1 98 AF in UTF-8. Greek Capital Letter Omega (U+03A9) encodes as CE A9 in UTF-8.

Canadian Syllabics Carrier Lho vs Greek Capital Letter Omega

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.

ᘯ

Canadian Syllabics Carrier Lho

U+162F

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Greek Capital Letter Omega

U+03A9

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Property Comparison

Property	Canadian Syllabics Carrier Lho	Greek Capital Letter Omega
Codepoint	`U+162F`	`U+03A9`
Decimal	`5679`	`937`
HTML Entity	`ᘯ`	`Ω`
HTML Decimal	`ᘯ`	`Ω`
HTML Hex	`ᘯ`	`Ω`
UTF-8	`E1 98 AF`	`CE A9`
UTF-16	`16 2F`	`03 A9`
UTF-32	`0000162F`	`000003A9`
CSS Escape	`\162F`	`\3A9`
JS Escape	`\u162F`	`\u03A9`
Python Escape	`\u162F`	`\u03A9`
URL Encoded	`%E1%98%AF`	`%CE%A9`
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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