What is the difference between Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-23 and Latin Capital Letter L?

Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-23 is U+1D22A in the Ancient Greek Musical Notation block. Latin Capital Letter L is U+004C 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 Instrumental Notation Symbol-23?

The HTML entity for Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-23 (U+1D22A) is 𝈪.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter L?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter L (U+004C) is L.

Are Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-23 and Latin Capital Letter L the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-23 is U+1D22A (decimal 119338) and Latin Capital Letter L is U+004C (decimal 76). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-23 and Latin Capital Letter L?

Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-23 (U+1D22A) encodes as F0 9D 88 AA in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter L (U+004C) encodes as 4C in UTF-8.

Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-23 vs Latin Capital Letter L

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-23

U+1D22A

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Latin Capital Letter L

U+004C

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-23	Latin Capital Letter L
Codepoint	`U+1D22A`	`U+004C`
Decimal	`119338`	`76`
HTML Entity	`𝈪`	`L`
HTML Decimal	`𝈪`	`L`
HTML Hex	`𝈪`	`L`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 88 AA`	`4C`
UTF-16	`D8 34 DE 2A`	`00 4C`
UTF-32	`0001D22A`	`0000004C`
CSS Escape	`\1D22A`	`\4C`
JS Escape	`\uD834\uDE2A`	`\u004C`
Python Escape	`\U0001D22A`	`\u004C`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%88%AA`	`L`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Ancient Greek Musical Notation`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Greek`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`4.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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