What is the difference between Mathematical Sans-serif Capital S and Latin Capital Letter S?

Mathematical Sans-serif Capital S is U+1D5B2 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. Latin Capital Letter S is U+0053 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 Sans-serif Capital S?

The HTML entity for Mathematical Sans-serif Capital S (U+1D5B2) is 𝖲.

What is the HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter S?

The HTML entity for Latin Capital Letter S (U+0053) is S.

Are Mathematical Sans-serif Capital S and Latin Capital Letter S the same Unicode character?

No. Mathematical Sans-serif Capital S is U+1D5B2 (decimal 120242) and Latin Capital Letter S is U+0053 (decimal 83). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Mathematical Sans-serif Capital S and Latin Capital Letter S?

Mathematical Sans-serif Capital S (U+1D5B2) encodes as F0 9D 96 B2 in UTF-8. Latin Capital Letter S (U+0053) encodes as 53 in UTF-8.

Mathematical Sans-serif Capital S vs Latin Capital Letter 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.

𝖲

Mathematical Sans-serif Capital S

U+1D5B2

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Latin Capital Letter S

U+0053

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Property Comparison

Property	Mathematical Sans-serif Capital S	Latin Capital Letter S
Codepoint	`U+1D5B2`	`U+0053`
Decimal	`120242`	`83`
HTML Entity	`𝖲`	`S`
HTML Decimal	`𝖲`	`S`
HTML Hex	`𝖲`	`S`
UTF-8	`F0 9D 96 B2`	`53`
UTF-16	`D8 35 DD B2`	`00 53`
UTF-32	`0001D5B2`	`00000053`
CSS Escape	`\1D5B2`	`\53`
JS Escape	`\uD835\uDDB2`	`\u0053`
Python Escape	`\U0001D5B2`	`\u0053`
URL Encoded	`%F0%9D%96%B2`	`S`
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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