What is the difference between Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-53 and Turned Sans-serif Capital Y?

Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-53 is U+1D21B in the Ancient Greek Musical Notation block. Turned Sans-serif Capital Y is U+2144 in the Letterlike Symbols 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-53?

The HTML entity for Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-53 (U+1D21B) is 𝈛.

What is the HTML entity for Turned Sans-serif Capital Y?

The HTML entity for Turned Sans-serif Capital Y (U+2144) is ⅄.

Are Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-53 and Turned Sans-serif Capital Y the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-53 is U+1D21B (decimal 119323) and Turned Sans-serif Capital Y is U+2144 (decimal 8516). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-53 and Turned Sans-serif Capital Y?

Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-53 (U+1D21B) encodes as F0 9D 88 9B in UTF-8. Turned Sans-serif Capital Y (U+2144) encodes as E2 85 84 in UTF-8.

Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-53 vs Turned Sans-serif Capital Y

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-53

U+1D21B

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⅄

Turned Sans-serif Capital Y

U+2144

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Vocal Notation Symbol-53	Turned Sans-serif Capital Y
Codepoint	`U+1D21B`	`U+2144`
Decimal	`119323`	`8516`
HTML Entity	`𝈛`	`⅄`
HTML Decimal	`𝈛`	`⅄`
HTML Hex	`𝈛`	`⅄`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 88 9B`	`E2 85 84`
UTF-16	`D8 34 DE 1B`	`21 44`
UTF-32	`0001D21B`	`00002144`
CSS Escape	`\1D21B`	`\2144`
JS Escape	`\uD834\uDE1B`	`\u2144`
Python Escape	`\U0001D21B`	`\u2144`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%88%9B`	`%E2%85%84`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Math Symbol (Sm)`
Block	`Ancient Greek Musical Notation`	`Letterlike Symbols`
Script	`Greek`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`4.1`	`3.2`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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