What is the difference between Canadian Syllabics Full Stop and Latin Small Letter X?

Canadian Syllabics Full Stop is U+166E in the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block. Latin Small Letter X is U+0078 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 Canadian Syllabics Full Stop?

The HTML entity for Canadian Syllabics Full Stop (U+166E) is ᙮.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter X?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter X (U+0078) is x.

Are Canadian Syllabics Full Stop and Latin Small Letter X the same Unicode character?

No. Canadian Syllabics Full Stop is U+166E (decimal 5742) and Latin Small Letter X is U+0078 (decimal 120). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Canadian Syllabics Full Stop and Latin Small Letter X?

Canadian Syllabics Full Stop (U+166E) encodes as E1 99 AE in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter X (U+0078) encodes as 78 in UTF-8.

Canadian Syllabics Full Stop vs Latin Small Letter X

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.

᙮

Canadian Syllabics Full Stop

U+166E

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Latin Small Letter X

U+0078

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Property Comparison

Property	Canadian Syllabics Full Stop	Latin Small Letter X
Codepoint	`U+166E`	`U+0078`
Decimal	`5742`	`120`
HTML Entity	`᙮`	`x`
HTML Decimal	`᙮`	`x`
HTML Hex	`᙮`	`x`
UTF-8	`E1 99 AE`	`78`
UTF-16	`16 6E`	`00 78`
UTF-32	`0000166E`	`00000078`
CSS Escape	`\166E`	`\78`
JS Escape	`\u166E`	`\u0078`
Python Escape	`\u166E`	`\u0078`
URL Encoded	`%E1%99%AE`	`x`
Category	`Other Punctuation (Po)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Canadian Aboriginal`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.0`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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