What is the difference between Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-8 and Cyrillic Capital Letter Omega?

Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-8 is U+1D222 in the Ancient Greek Musical Notation block. Cyrillic Capital Letter Omega is U+0460 in the Cyrillic block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-8?

The HTML entity for Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-8 (U+1D222) is 𝈢.

What is the HTML entity for Cyrillic Capital Letter Omega?

The HTML entity for Cyrillic Capital Letter Omega (U+0460) is Ѡ.

Are Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-8 and Cyrillic Capital Letter Omega the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-8 is U+1D222 (decimal 119330) and Cyrillic Capital Letter Omega is U+0460 (decimal 1120). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-8 and Cyrillic Capital Letter Omega?

Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-8 (U+1D222) encodes as F0 9D 88 A2 in UTF-8. Cyrillic Capital Letter Omega (U+0460) encodes as D1 A0 in UTF-8.

Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-8 vs Cyrillic 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.

𝈢

Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-8

U+1D222

Full details →

Cyrillic Capital Letter Omega

U+0460

Full details →

Property Comparison

Property	Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-8	Cyrillic Capital Letter Omega
Codepoint	`U+1D222`	`U+0460`
Decimal	`119330`	`1120`
HTML Entity	`𝈢`	`Ѡ`
HTML Decimal	`𝈢`	`Ѡ`
HTML Hex	`𝈢`	`Ѡ`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 88 A2`	`D1 A0`
UTF-16	`D8 34 DE 22`	`04 60`
UTF-32	`0001D222`	`00000460`
CSS Escape	`\1D222`	`\460`
JS Escape	`\uD834\uDE22`	`\u0460`
Python Escape	`\U0001D222`	`\u0460`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%88%A2`	`%D1%A0`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Ancient Greek Musical Notation`	`Cyrillic`
Script	`Greek`	`Cyrillic`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`4.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

Common Comparisons

Frequently confused character pairs.

Em Dash vs En Dash 2014 / 2013 Hyphen-Minus vs Minus Sign 002D / 2212 Copyright vs Sound Recording Copyright 00A9 / 2117 Latin A vs Greek Alpha 0041 / 0391 Degree Sign vs Masculine Ordinal 00B0 / 00BA Left vs Right Single Quotation Mark 2018 / 2019 Left vs Right Double Quotation Mark 201C / 201D Multiplication Sign vs Letter x 00D7 / 0078 Right Quotation Mark vs Apostrophe 2019 / 0027 Horizontal Ellipsis vs Three Dots 2026 / 0020