What is the difference between Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-40 and Less-than Sign?

Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-40 is U+1D236 in the Ancient Greek Musical Notation block. Less-than Sign is U+003C 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-40?

The HTML entity for Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-40 (U+1D236) is 𝈶.

What is the HTML entity for Less-than Sign?

The HTML entity for Less-than Sign (U+003C) is <.

Are Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-40 and Less-than Sign the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-40 is U+1D236 (decimal 119350) and Less-than Sign is U+003C (decimal 60). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-40 and Less-than Sign?

Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-40 (U+1D236) encodes as F0 9D 88 B6 in UTF-8. Less-than Sign (U+003C) encodes as 3C in UTF-8.

Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-40 vs Less-than Sign

Q: Are Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-40 and Less-than Sign the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-40 is U+1D236 (decimal 119350) and Less-than Sign is U+003C (decimal 60). They are separate codepoints.

Q: What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-40 and Less-than Sign?

Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-40 (U+1D236) encodes as F0 9D 88 B6 in UTF-8. Less-than Sign (U+003C) encodes as 3C in UTF-8.

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-40

U+1D236

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Less-than Sign

U+003C

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-40	Less-than Sign
Codepoint	`U+1D236`	`U+003C`
Decimal	`119350`	`60`
HTML Entity	`𝈶`	`<`
HTML Decimal	`𝈶`	`<`
HTML Hex	`𝈶`	`<`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 88 B6`	`3C`
UTF-16	`D8 34 DE 36`	`00 3C`
UTF-32	`0001D236`	`0000003C`
CSS Escape	`\1D236`	`\3C`
JS Escape	`\uD834\uDE36`	`\u003C`
Python Escape	`\U0001D236`	`\u003C`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%88%B6`	`%3C`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Math Symbol (Sm)`
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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