What is the difference between Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-52 and Runic Letter Sigel Long-branch-sol S?

Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-52 is U+1D23F in the Ancient Greek Musical Notation block. Runic Letter Sigel Long-branch-sol S is U+16CB in the Runic 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-52?

The HTML entity for Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-52 (U+1D23F) is 𝈿.

What is the HTML entity for Runic Letter Sigel Long-branch-sol S?

The HTML entity for Runic Letter Sigel Long-branch-sol S (U+16CB) is ᛋ.

Are Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-52 and Runic Letter Sigel Long-branch-sol S the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-52 is U+1D23F (decimal 119359) and Runic Letter Sigel Long-branch-sol S is U+16CB (decimal 5835). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-52 and Runic Letter Sigel Long-branch-sol S?

Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-52 (U+1D23F) encodes as F0 9D 88 BF in UTF-8. Runic Letter Sigel Long-branch-sol S (U+16CB) encodes as E1 9B 8B in UTF-8.

Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-52 vs Runic Letter Sigel Long-branch-sol S

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-52

U+1D23F

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ᛋ

Runic Letter Sigel Long-branch-sol S

U+16CB

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Instrumental Notation Symbol-52	Runic Letter Sigel Long-branch-sol S
Codepoint	`U+1D23F`	`U+16CB`
Decimal	`119359`	`5835`
HTML Entity	`𝈿`	`ᛋ`
HTML Decimal	`𝈿`	`ᛋ`
HTML Hex	`𝈿`	`ᛋ`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 88 BF`	`E1 9B 8B`
UTF-16	`D8 34 DE 3F`	`16 CB`
UTF-32	`0001D23F`	`000016CB`
CSS Escape	`\1D23F`	`\16CB`
JS Escape	`\uD834\uDE3F`	`\u16CB`
Python Escape	`\U0001D23F`	`\u16CB`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%88%BF`	`%E1%9B%8B`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`Ancient Greek Musical Notation`	`Runic`
Script	`Greek`	`Runic`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`4.1`	`3.0`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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