What is the difference between Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-16 and Reverse Solidus?

Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-16 is U+1D20F in the Ancient Greek Musical Notation block. Reverse Solidus is U+005C 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 Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-16?

The HTML entity for Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-16 (U+1D20F) is 𝈏.

What is the HTML entity for Reverse Solidus?

The HTML entity for Reverse Solidus (U+005C) is \.

Are Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-16 and Reverse Solidus the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-16 is U+1D20F (decimal 119311) and Reverse Solidus is U+005C (decimal 92). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-16 and Reverse Solidus?

Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-16 (U+1D20F) encodes as F0 9D 88 8F in UTF-8. Reverse Solidus (U+005C) encodes as 5C in UTF-8.

Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-16 vs Reverse Solidus

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.

𝈏

Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-16

U+1D20F

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Reverse Solidus

U+005C

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-16	Reverse Solidus
Codepoint	`U+1D20F`	`U+005C`
Decimal	`119311`	`92`
HTML Entity	`𝈏`	`\`
HTML Decimal	`𝈏`	`\`
HTML Hex	`𝈏`	`\`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 88 8F`	`5C`
UTF-16	`D8 34 DE 0F`	`00 5C`
UTF-32	`0001D20F`	`0000005C`
CSS Escape	`\1D20F`	`\5C`
JS Escape	`\uD834\uDE0F`	`\u005C`
Python Escape	`\U0001D20F`	`\u005C`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%88%8F`	`%5C`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Other Punctuation (Po)`
Block	`Ancient Greek Musical Notation`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Greek`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`4.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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