What is the difference between Greek Letter Small Capital Lamda and Latin Small Letter Turned V?

Greek Letter Small Capital Lamda is U+1D27 in the Phonetic Extensions block. Latin Small Letter Turned V is U+028C in the IPA Extensions block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Greek Letter Small Capital Lamda?

The HTML entity for Greek Letter Small Capital Lamda (U+1D27) is ᴧ.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Turned V?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter Turned V (U+028C) is ʌ.

Are Greek Letter Small Capital Lamda and Latin Small Letter Turned V the same Unicode character?

No. Greek Letter Small Capital Lamda is U+1D27 (decimal 7463) and Latin Small Letter Turned V is U+028C (decimal 652). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Greek Letter Small Capital Lamda and Latin Small Letter Turned V?

Greek Letter Small Capital Lamda (U+1D27) encodes as E1 B4 A7 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter Turned V (U+028C) encodes as CA 8C in UTF-8.

Greek Letter Small Capital Lamda vs Latin Small Letter Turned V

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.

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Greek Letter Small Capital Lamda

U+1D27

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Latin Small Letter Turned V

U+028C

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Property Comparison

Property	Greek Letter Small Capital Lamda	Latin Small Letter Turned V
Codepoint	`U+1D27`	`U+028C`
Decimal	`7463`	`652`
HTML Entity	`ᴧ`	`ʌ`
HTML Decimal	`ᴧ`	`ʌ`
HTML Hex	`ᴧ`	`ʌ`
UTF-8	`E1 B4 A7`	`CA 8C`
UTF-16	`1D 27`	`02 8C`
UTF-32	`00001D27`	`0000028C`
CSS Escape	`\1D27`	`\28C`
JS Escape	`\u1D27`	`\u028C`
Python Escape	`\u1D27`	`\u028C`
URL Encoded	`%E1%B4%A7`	`%CA%8C`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
Block	`Phonetic Extensions`	`IPA Extensions`
Script	`Greek`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`4.0`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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