What is the difference between Mathematical Double-struck Small O and Latin Small Letter O?

Mathematical Double-struck Small O is U+1D560 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Small Letter O is U+006F 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 Double-struck Small O?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Double-struck Small O (U+1D560) is 𝕠.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Small Letter O?

The HTML entity for Latin Small Letter O (U+006F) is o.

Are Mathematical Double-struck Small O and Latin Small Letter O the same Unicode character?

No. Mathematical Double-struck Small O is U+1D560 (decimal 120160) and Latin Small Letter O is U+006F (decimal 111). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Mathematical Double-struck Small O and Latin Small Letter O?

Mathematical Double-struck Small O (U+1D560) encodes as F0 9D 95 A0 in UTF-8. Latin Small Letter O (U+006F) encodes as 6F in UTF-8.

Mathematical Double-struck Small O vs Latin Small Letter O

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.

𝕠

Mathematical Double-struck Small O

U+1D560

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Latin Small Letter O

U+006F

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Double-struck Small O	Latin Small Letter O
Codepoint	`U+1D560`	`U+006F`
Decimal	`120160`	`111`
HTML Entity	`𝕠`	`o`
HTML Decimal	`𝕠`	`o`
HTML Hex	`𝕠`	`o`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 95 A0`	`6F`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DD 60`	`00 6F`
UTF-32	`0001D560`	`0000006F`
CSS Escape	`\1D560`	`\6F`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDD60`	`\u006F`
Python Escape	`\U0001D560`	`\u006F`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%95%A0`	`o`
Category	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`	`Lowercase Letter (Ll)`
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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