What is the difference between Runic Letter Long-branch-madr M and Greek Capital Letter Psi?

Runic Letter Long-branch-madr M is U+16D8 in the Runic block. Greek Capital Letter Psi is U+03A8 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 Runic Letter Long-branch-madr M?

The HTML entity for Runic Letter Long-branch-madr M (U+16D8) is ᛘ.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Psi?

The HTML entity for Greek Capital Letter Psi (U+03A8) is Ψ.

Are Runic Letter Long-branch-madr M and Greek Capital Letter Psi the same Unicode character?

No. Runic Letter Long-branch-madr M is U+16D8 (decimal 5848) and Greek Capital Letter Psi is U+03A8 (decimal 936). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Runic Letter Long-branch-madr M and Greek Capital Letter Psi?

Runic Letter Long-branch-madr M (U+16D8) encodes as E1 9B 98 in UTF-8. Greek Capital Letter Psi (U+03A8) encodes as CE A8 in UTF-8.

Runic Letter Long-branch-madr M vs Greek Capital Letter Psi

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.

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Runic Letter Long-branch-madr M

U+16D8

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Greek Capital Letter Psi

U+03A8

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Property Comparison

Property	Runic Letter Long-branch-madr M	Greek Capital Letter Psi
Codepoint	`U+16D8`	`U+03A8`
Decimal	`5848`	`936`
HTML Entity	`ᛘ`	`Ψ`
HTML Decimal	`ᛘ`	`Ψ`
HTML Hex	`ᛘ`	`Ψ`
UTF-8	`E1 9B 98`	`CE A8`
UTF-16	`16 D8`	`03 A8`
UTF-32	`000016D8`	`000003A8`
CSS Escape	`\16D8`	`\3A8`
JS Escape	`\u16D8`	`\u03A8`
Python Escape	`\u16D8`	`\u03A8`
URL Encoded	`%E1%9B%98`	`%CE%A8`
Category	`Other Letter (Lo)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Runic`	`Greek and Coptic`
Script	`Runic`	`Greek`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.0`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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