What is the difference between Mathematical Bold Italic Capital B and Latin Capital Letter B?

Mathematical Bold Italic Capital B is U+1D469 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Capital Letter B is U+0042 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 Mathematical Bold Italic Capital B?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Bold Italic Capital B (U+1D469) is 𝑩.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter B?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter B (U+0042) is B.

Are Mathematical Bold Italic Capital B and Latin Capital Letter B the same Unicode character?

No. Mathematical Bold Italic Capital B is U+1D469 (decimal 119913) and Latin Capital Letter B is U+0042 (decimal 66). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Mathematical Bold Italic Capital B and Latin Capital Letter B?

Mathematical Bold Italic Capital B (U+1D469) encodes as F0 9D 91 A9 in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter B (U+0042) encodes as 42 in UTF-8.

Mathematical Bold Italic Capital B vs Latin Capital Letter B

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.

𝑩

Mathematical Bold Italic Capital B

U+1D469

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Latin Capital Letter B

U+0042

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Bold Italic Capital B	Latin Capital Letter B
Codepoint	`U+1D469`	`U+0042`
Decimal	`119913`	`66`
HTML Entity	`𝑩`	`B`
HTML Decimal	`𝑩`	`B`
HTML Hex	`𝑩`	`B`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 91 A9`	`42`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DC 69`	`00 42`
UTF-32	`0001D469`	`00000042`
CSS Escape	`\1D469`	`\42`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDC69`	`\u0042`
Python Escape	`\U0001D469`	`\u0042`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%91%A9`	`B`
Category	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`	`Uppercase Letter (Lu)`
Block	`Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Common`	`Latin`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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